Iona Director David Quinn appeared on the Today with Sean O’Rourke show this morning to debate school admissions policies with barrister Paddy Monahan. The debate, hosted by Keelin Shanley, focused on the criteria on which school places are allotted in the event of a shortage. Monahan argued that it was discrimination for Catholic schools to...
Iona’s Ben Conroy appeared on the Ray D’Arcy show on Tuesday 26 August, discussing the topic of abortion with host Kathryn Thomas. Ben examined and criticised the recent Amnesty International report calling for the repeal of the pro-life 8th amendment to the constitution, and explained what it is that makes him pro-life. Listen to the...
Iona Institute representatives were prominent in the recent debate on same-sex marriage, making the case for a No vote clearly and respectfully across a variety of TV and Radio Programmes. Here are four of the major appearances. Maria Steen appeared on RTÉ’s final TV debate of the campaign on Prime Time, hosted by Miriam O’Callaghan....
David Quinn appeared on Morning Ireland, debating Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty International about the introduction of a “conscience clause” protecting the freedom of conscience rights of bakers, printers, and other citizens who don’t support same-sex marriage, in the event that the referendum was passed. The debate follows the Asher’s Bakery case in Northern Ireland, in...
In the last few weeks Iona Institute representatives have been on a wide range of programmes debating the upcoming marriage referendum, the Children and Family Relationship Bill and surrogacy. David Quinn debated Colm O’Gorman of Amnesty Ireland on The Pat Kenny Show. They debated the planned change to marriage was one of the most substantive ones to...
Iona director David Quinn appeared on Matt Cooper’s The Last Word programme on Today FM. He and Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland discussed the implications of removing Ireland’s blasphemy law in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders. The questions of whether anti-hate-speech laws are the modern-day equivalent of blasphemy laws, and what constitutes “reasonable limits” on...
Iona Institute spokesperson Ben Conroy appeared on LMFM’s Michael Reade show debating same-sex marriage with Tiernan Brady of GLEN, and on Today FM’s The Last Word discussing the same issue. Conroy argued that equality was not the same thing as “sameness” and that recognising difference led to more equality, not less. He pointed out that...
Iona Institute Director David Quinn was on Newtalk’s Moncrieff programme last week talking about surrogacy. In a long interview, Moncrieff and Quinn discussed the differences between surrogacy and gamete donation on the one hand and adoption on the other. Quinn asked Moncrieff to consider some of the unintended consequences that could come about through legislation...
Iona Institute director David Quinn was on Newstalk’s Pat Kenny show debating assisted suicide with Tom Curran, partner of the late Marie Fleming. Curran is supporting a bill sponsored by Independent TD John Halligan which would legislate for assisted suicide based on the model adopted by the US State of Oregon. He said that when...
Iona spokesperson Ben Conroy appeared on BBC Worldwide’s “Trending” programme discussing the new ‘Armagayddon’ video made by LGBT Noise. He was on both the radio show (item beings at 8:32) and in a short video podcast. Conroy was also on the World Service’s “Weekend” programme with Fergus Nicoll, discussing the same topics (not yet available).
