Press release from The Iona Institute In a talk organised by The Iona Institute to be delivered tonight in the Abbey Hotel, Roscommon, the new Bishop of Elphin, Dr Kevin Doran, will address the topic, ‘Marriage and the Common Good’. In his talk (text below), Bishop Doran refers to next year’s referendum on same-sex marriage....
Press release from The Iona Institute The surrogacy case that was before the Supreme Court shows how surrogacy itself creates an automatic ambiguity about who the mother of a child is. It is why countries such as France and Germany prohibit surrogacy altogether and Ireland should follow suit. Commenting on the case, Iona Institute Director,...
Press release from The Iona Institute A company called ‘Oregon Reproductive Medicine’ is holding a seminar in Dublin today to advertise its services to people who desire to have children using donor eggs/sperm and/or surrogate mothers. What the seminar is actually highlighting is the extent to which services like this are effectively commodifying the whole...
Press release from The Iona Institute Michael Noonan and Joan Burton must honour promise to end tax individualisation The tax system “hugely and unfairly discriminates” against the family today compared with the tax system in the 1970s, The Iona Institute has said. A new paper (click here to download) from The Iona Institute called ‘Restoring Fairness and...
Press release from The Iona Institute Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald must properly recognise the importance of the natural ties and the special status of marriage in the proposed Children and Family Relationships Bill, The Iona Institute has said in a statement today. Commenting on the release of a new version of the Bill’s General Scheme,...
Press release from The Iona Institute Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan must maintain the spirit of Rule 68 for national schools because it protects the identity of denominational schools, The Iona Institute has said in a statement today. According to reports, Minister O’Sullivan has said she wants to amend the rule. Rule 68 permits denominational schools...
Press release from The Iona Institute THERE ARE many troubling aspects to the recent case where a foreign national’s baby was delivered early by Caesarean section, Breda O’Brien of the Iona Institute said today. “There are reports that the young woman was terrified of an unspecified person, and even afraid that she might be killed,”...
Press release from The Iona Institute The case of a Thai surrogate mother that has made headlines all over the world highlights the unavoidable ethical pitfalls of surrogacy, The Iona Institute has said today. The case involves a Thai woman who gave birth to twins on behalf of an Australian couple. One of the babies,...
Press release from The Iona Institute A new report on how to make denominational schools more inclusive of children of other faiths and none just released by the Department of Education has been described as a “step in the right direction” by Breda O’Brien, of The Iona Institute. The report is from the Forum on...
Press release from The Iona Institute The action of Ireland in voting against a resolution this week at the UN supporting the family has been described as “unacceptable” by the Director of The Iona Institute, David Quinn. Ireland, along with other Western countries, voted against the resolution on the ground that it referred to ‘the...
