Maria Steen was on RTE’s Claire Byrne Live last Monday, discussing the upcoming abortion referendum. Other panellists were Dr John Monaghan, obstetrician, and Mary Butler, Fianna Fáil MP. Representatives of the YES were Orla O’Connor, from the National Women Council of Ireland, Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Féin, and Dr Peter Boylan, obstetrician. You can watch...
David Quinn appeared at the Marian Finucane show on RTE Radio, on Sunday 13th May. Other panellists were retired Judge Catherine McGuinness and pro-choice GP, Dr Mark Murphy, for the YES side, and journalist Larissa Nolan for the NO side. The item can be listened here.
Pat Kenny asks David Quinn if the legalisation of assisted suicide should be introduced to Ireland, after a 104 Australian scientist travelled to Switzerland from Perth to end his life. The item can be listened here.
Maria Steen, of the Iona Institute, spoke to Pat Kenny about the draft abortion legislation presented to the Cabinet by Minister for Health, Simon Harris, and also about Simon Coveney’s recent volte-face on this topic. Pat Kenny defended staunchly the Government position. The item can be listened here.
Education Minister, Richard Bruton, has announced a revision of the Relationships and Sexuality Education programme for schools. Roe McDermott of The Irish Times, and David Quinn of The Iona Institute, discussed the proposal. You can watch it here.
David Quinn was on RTE’s ‘This Week’ on Sunday to discuss Ireland’s proposed surrogacy law. The proposed law will outlaw commercial surrogacy but permit non-commercial surrogacy for which ‘reasonable expenses’ will be paid. Irish people will still be able to avail of commercial surrogacy abroad. David argued that surrogacy in all forms commodifies children and...
Following the Dail debate last week on the issue of abortion, Maria Steen of The Iona Institute appeared on Prime Time where she debated Labour’s Senator Ivana Bacik. The item can be watch here. Maria was also on Today with Sean O’Rourke where she debated Senator Catherine Noone, Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment. It is here. Senator...
Maria Steen, of the Iona Institute, talked to Sarah McInerney on Newstalk Breakfast about Minister Bruton’s plans to forcibly amend the admissions policies of some faith-based schools, namely, removing the so-called ‘baptism barrier’ to Catholic Schools. The item can be found here.
Maria Steen, of the Iona Institute, appeared together with Senator Ronan Mullen on Today with Sean O’Rourke on 15th December to debate the radical and far-reaching proposals of the Oireachtas abortion committee. Also on the panel were Fine Gael TD, Bernard Durkan and journalist, Alison O’Connor. The item can be found here. David Quinn, director of...
Iona Institute Director, David Quinn, has been on a number of programmes lately discussing his new book ‘How we killed God (and other tales of modern Ireland’) which looks back at almost 25 years of tumultuous social and religious change in Ireland. A central theme of his book is that ‘Official Ireland’ has set out...
