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Drafting legislation for the X Case
A few more thoughts on my Irish Examiner column today, on why X Case legislation must include the abortion test, which can be found here. Considering the government has announced its intention to proceed with X Case legislation, I contacted … Continue reading
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Our cultural heritage is under siege by bureaucratic barbarians at the gate
THE attempt of members of Athlone Town Council to remove an exhibit from a local gallery should not be dismissed as an isolated case of parochial philistinism and should alert the public to the dangers of the Government’s plan to … Continue reading
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Clarification re Pat Rabbitte and “offensive” tweets
In a blog post earlier today I discussed an article in the Irish Independent on Saturday in which Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte described a series of tweets about Senator Ronan Mullen as “offensive” and “deplorable”. The tweets in question, according to … Continue reading
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Irish abortion law: women treated as insentient incubators and instructed to grin and, literally, bear it.
IF Labour is wondering why its support has suffered a vertiginous drop since last year’s election it need only look to its TDs’ shameful contributions to last week’s Dáil debate on abortion for answers. One by one they got to … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC Case, abortion, C Case, European Court of Human Rights, Labour Party, X Case
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We’ll seek retribution over nation’s debt legacy if we want to, St. Bruton
Have you heard the good news? Finally, one of our wise elder statesmen has discovered the cure for what ails our nation. You can forget your tribunals, criminal investigations, court cases, and convictions. No, that due process stuff is seriously overrated. … Continue reading
ABC v Ireland judgment, and its likely implications on abortion law in Ireland, explained.
I recently wrote an essay on the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and the likely impact of the A B C v Ireland case, concerning the three Irish-based women who went to the European Court of Human Rights claiming … Continue reading
Traditional media need to invest in content to face future with confidence
Why is it that traditional journalists, when asked to review new media, invariably begin with a ubiquitous, “well, I don’t use Twitter myself but …” before launching into a sneering tirade decrying it as a cyber hellhole populated entirely by … Continue reading
From the archive: Flanagan returns to Leinster House
I heard Fine Gael TD Charlie Flanagan sounding very upbeat, in advance of the party’s Ard Fheis this weekend, on Morning Ireland today and it reminded me of this colour piece I wrote after shadowing him, while he spent a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Flanagan, Election 2007, Fine Gael
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Minister Joan Burton on Ireland’s endemic and systemic corruption scandals
Social Protection Minister Joan Burton gave a wide-ranging lecture in Trinity College today on corruption in Ireland – citing, variously, the child sex abuse scandal; her own experience, as a “newbie” councillor in Dublin City Council, of receiving 42 legal … Continue reading
Posted in Bailout, Bankers, Economy, Justice, Politics
Tagged banks, Bertie Ahern, Mahon Report, Mahon Tribunal, Nyberg Report
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Martin cannot brush off criticism for his silence on tribunal bashing
HOW can we be expected to believe Micheál Martin can root out corruption in the Fianna Fáil party when he can’t even identify the ministers who, according to the Mahon Report, launched a “sustained and virulent attack” on the tribunal … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertie Ahern, corruption, Fianna Fáil, Mahon Report, Mahon Tribunal
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