It has been revealed that more than one hundred babies have been born alive in Ireland following abortions since the procedure was legalised in 2019. A large majority of these babies suffered from a major congenital abnormality and were generally delivered between the 22nd and 27th week of pregnancy. The grim news came in reply...
The Department of Education has published the redeveloped Primary School Curriculum. It contains five broad subject areas and they will be all rolled out in schools over the next few months. Last year, during the consultation process, the Iona Institute presented concerns about the draft proposals, concerns that have now been confirmed by what has...
On Tuesday. the street where the office of The Iona Institute is based had to be cordoned off by Gardai (see picture above), after a suspect package was sent to us. I opened the package, which turned out to contain a large amount of white powder. Some of it spilled out onto the floor, the desk, and my hands. The letter...
In Ireland, the number of births continues to exceed deaths, but only thanks to the contribution of immigrant communities. In the first quarter of 2025, for the first time on record, more Irish nationals died than were born, a watershed moment. The overall fertility rate for the country is now 1.5, well below the replacement...
The annual Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) pilgrimage took place in Knock last weekend. Aid to the Church in Need is an international pontifical charity that devotes itself to helping persecuted Christians all over the world. It also draws attention to what it sometimes calls the ‘polite persecution’ of Christians in the West,...
A new United Nations report is calling for the eradication of surrogacy in all its forms, arguing that the practice inherently harms both women and children. It also recommends punishing buyers, clinics and agencies. Ireland should pay attention. We have one of the most permissive surrogacy laws in Europe although it is awaiting commencement for...
Fresh figures from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, show the scale of Europe’s demographic challenge. In 2024, there were about 4.82 million deaths across the EU but only 3.56 million births, a deficit of almost 1.3m. In other words, when you compare births with deaths alone, Europe’s population is shrinking. So why is the...
Since the 2018 referendum repealing the Eighth Amendment, the number of abortions in Ireland has continued to rise. According to the annual report produced by the Department of Health recently the number rose to 10,852 in 2024 compared with 6,666 in 2019. This represents a 63pc increase. Additionally, 201 Irish residents had abortions in England,...
News emerged this week of a woman, Maureen Slough, who recently travelled from Ireland to Switzerland to end her life through assisted suicide. Her family only learned of her death afterwards, leaving them devastated. The case further reveals the existence in Switzerland of what is sometimes called ‘suicide tourism’ whereby people travel there to avail...
In Britain recently it was announced to huge fanfare that eight babies had been born using a new genetic technique which ensured they were not born with a hereditary condition which could have fatal consequences. The babies have three genetic parents, and the new technique was treated as an unambiguous good in almost all media....
