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...
Amnesty Ireland are again misinterpreting human rights law by claiming that abortion is a human right recognised under international law. This time they’ve enlisted the help of two of Amnesty International’s leading legal advisors to help buttress their case, namely Jaime Todd-Gher and Christina Zampas. In the letter pages of The Irish Times the duo...
The nuns were dragged into a row this week over the future management of the National Maternity Hospital. In addition, there was much derogatory about Catholic healthcare in general. But as David Quinn writes in his Irish Independent column this week, soon it may be the cases in some countries that Catholic hospitals will be...
There has been a minor kerfuffle about the religion question in the Census everyone was supposed to do last night. The question is a simple one; ‘what is your religion?’ The kerfuffle has centred mainly on how people should answer the question, and specifically whether it would be more honest for someone who almost never...
Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy Love”), earlier this month. It is a profound and lengthy document which addresses a vast array of subjects: from family stability to child trafficking, from the beauty of marital love to marital breakdown, from children’s education to pornography, and much, much more in between. Reactions to Amoris...
