Press release from The Iona Institute Up and down the country, Yes side activists are tearing down or defacing No campaign posters and boasting about it on Facebook, twitter and other social media. This is a clear breach of the law. It is happening in broad daylight and yet there has hardly been a sound...
Press release from The Iona Institute Proposed redefinition of the family attacks the rights of children On ‘This Week’ on RTE today, Tanaiste Joan Burton clearly demonstrated that she and the Government attach no special value to a child enjoying the love of both a mother and a father. Pressed by presenter Richard Crowley as...
Press release from The Iona Institute Would it be acceptable for Twitter to call on Irish people to vote for a particular party? Multinational corporations should avoid commenting on Irish politics, the Iona Institute said in a statement today criticising the call made by Twitter and other tech companies for Yes vote in the upcoming marriage...
Press release from The Iona Institute A new opinion poll conducted by Amarach Research on behalf of The Iona Institute has found that seventy percent of respondents agree with the statement, ‘Children have a right to be raised by their own mother and father’. Only eight percent disagreed with the statement while the remainder said...
Press release from The Iona Institute The Children and Family Bill takes a completely different view A new opinion poll conducted by Amarach Research on behalf of The Iona Institute has found that ninety-one percent of respondents believe that when a child is being placed for adoption, it is best to try and place the...
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,...
