‘Mind the Gap’, a new report from The Iona Institute, shows how a person’s chances of marrying are hugely affected by the social class they are born into. The report shows that upper professional workers are more than twice as likely as unskilled workers to be married. The huge discrepancy shows that there are formidable...
The issue of the ‘right to die’ has resurfaced in Ireland after ‘right to die’ campaigner, Tom Curran, admitted he has helped some 200 people to plan their suicides. David Quinn of The Iona Institute, and Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland, debated on The Pat Kenny Show today (June 15) whether such a right exists....
New research shows that the percentage of Britons who say they have no religion now exceeds the number who say they are Christian. By any reckoning that is a watershed. It is one that many ‘progressives’ will welcome, but they should be careful what they wish for. One reason ‘progressives’ will welcome it is because...
This week, new Education Minister, Richard Bruton, announced plans to speed up divestment of some Catholic schools so as to allow a wider choice of schools to parents. David Quinn of The Iona Institute and Paddy Monahan of Educate Equality debated the new proposals on The Right Hook on Monday. The debate can be heard here....
Una Mullaly has an issue with media balance. Her piece in this week’s The Irish Times is a reaction to the recent Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s (BAI) decision to uphold a complaint made against RTE’s The Ray D’Arcy show. The complaint alleged bias against an item on the show that dealt with the law of...
When a case involving a child in care comes to light it can be extremely hard to get to the bottom of why the child is in care or whether decisions made by the State on behalf of the child are genuinely in his or her best interests. It’s understandable that we don’t tend to...
The possible move of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to the grounds of St. Vincent’s Hospital has caused a fair degree of debate. One of the main debating points is the role St. Vincent’s Catholic ethos may or may not have in governing the National Maternity Hospital if the proposed move transpires. This...
Writing in the Times of London today, Matt Ridley objects to people who object to gene editing on the basis that it is the slippery slope to eugenics. With all due respect to Mr Ridley, we are well down that slope already. The writer offers three reasons why gene editing will not lead to eugenics....
Yesterday Maria Steen of The Iona Institute debated the issue of abortion and the 8th amendment with Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International Ireland. They appeared together on the Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk. A highlight was when Maria asked Colm a question that resulted in several seconds silence from Colm which was broken by Pat Kenny....
The issue of Catholic hospitals and Catholic ethos has been much in the news over the last couple of weeks because of a dispute taking place between the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) and St Vincent’s hospital over the possible relocation of the former to the latter’s campus elsewhere on Dublin’s southside. The row was initially...
