It is not a truth, but unfortunately it is almost universally acknowledged, that the sexual revolution’s primary beneficiaries were women because it gave them the ‘right to choose’. Hence, any time anyone challenges even the tiniest aspect of it they are immediately smeared as being “anti-woman”. This is the current smear being propagated against those...
Recent days have rightly seen blanket coverage of the shooting of seven people including four at a Jewish school in France and the subsequent death of the man responsible. However, the tone of the coverage was in marked contrast to the reporting of the horrific incident of mass murder which took place last year in...
Jon Hamm is the actor who plays Don Draper, the central character in the cult TV series, Madmen, which is about a Manhattan advertising firm in the 1960s. Hamm has been living with his partner for the last fifteen years and is in no mood to marry. It turns out a big reason for this...
Denominational schools have a right to protect their ethos, and require legislative provisions to enable them to do so, Fr Michael Drumm (pictured), chairman of the Catholic Schools Partnership, told an Iona Institute conference on denominational schools yesterday. Fr Drumm told the conference, entitled “Denominational Education in a Pluralist Society” that proposals to amend rules which...
How did same-sex marriage become such a major issue so quickly? Only a decade ago, almost no-one thought it was an important topic. Now, to hear certain people tell it, it is a civil right as vital as the right to free speech or the right to vote. How did this happen? Brendan O’Neill (pictured),...
Representatives from The Iona Institute, or speakers at our events, have featured on a number of high profile radio and TV shows in the last few weeks to discuss issues ranging from surrogate motherhood, to the gender pay gap to anti-Catholicism. Here is a selection of them. Frontline: David Quinn, Ivan Bacik, Diarmuid Ferriter and...
Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly addressed the annual Accord conference in Belfast last weekend. O’Reilly, one of Ireland’s best known journalists in a previous life is probably best described as a conflicted liberal. She has supported most of the liberal causes down the years, but she’s smart enough to know that the liberal reforms have a downside...
New figures from the European Commission show that the gender pay gap in Ireland is 17 percent. This is in line with the EU average. Yesterday on Morning Ireland Orla O’Connor of the National Women’s Council said one of the major factors contributing to this is a lack of affordable daycare in Ireland. However, proof...
Two Catholic midwives in Scotland have been told by a court that they must supervise and support staff in the labour ward of their hospital who perform abortions irrespective of their religious convictions. As reported by Catholic News Agency, Scotland’s highest civil court ruled that the women’s religious liberties were not being infringed because “the...
The finding of an ESRI study that most cohabiting couples get married shortly after they have their first child confirms what we in the Iona Institute have repeated many times: marriage is mainly about children and even today most people believe this as the actions of cohabiting couples with children testify. The study showed that,...
