Constitutional Reform In Ireland, A Success Story For The Right And Not The Left?
Like many political observers I was more than a little apprehensive about the outcome of last Friday’s referendum on repealingContinue Reading
Tag: Abortion
A Pro-Choice Landslide Predicted In Ireland’s Abortion Referendum
Given the reputation of Irish exit polling, the results below may well be the cause of good cheer for theContinue Reading
John Waters Storms Off The Eamon Dunphy Podcast
The conservative journalist and occasional tantrum-artist John Waters makes a brief appearance on The Stand, Eamon Dunphy’s current affairs’ podcast,Continue Reading
The Claire Byrne Live Show And American Anti-Choice Tactics Among The No Campaign
Judging by the apparent “swarming” of public meetings and events around the country by groups of anti-choice activists along with aContinue Reading
170,216 Irish Women And Girls Are Murderers Because They Had Abortions?
The Journal has a feature on yesterday’s small protest outside the iconic GPO building in Dublin, the seat of theContinue Reading
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Crisis Pregnancy Centres
Given the ongoing preparations for the referendum on the Eight Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, scheduled for the end ofContinue Reading
The Noxious Beliefs Of The Hardcore Anti-Abortion Lobby In Ireland
Lift up a particular rock in Irish politics and what do you find crawling and squirming underneath but a swarmContinue Reading
Amnesty International Ireland Is Wrong On Foreign Donations
As most readers are aware, I support the availability of abortion through the health service in Ireland, disdaining the present, inhumaneContinue Reading
The Illogicality Of Being Pro-Life While Favouring Exceptions For Abortion
As WorldByStorm notes there are some surprising results from last weekend’s Irish Times poll on abortion (yes, yet another one). A clearContinue Reading
On The Issue Of Abortion In Ireland, You Cannot Be Both Pro-Choice And Anti-Choice
Perhaps it is my analytical mind, a beneficial side-effect of a career in the IT industry, but for me the question ofContinue Reading
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Casting The Women Of Ireland Beyond The Ninth Wave: We Face This Land
Ireland’s indigenous literature has long regarded the ninth wave, reputedly the outermost one surrounding the shoreline of the country, as a supernatural boundary. When the invadingContinue Reading
Ní Saoirse Go Saoirse Na mBan, A Message From Syria On The 8th Amendment
The International Freedom Battalion (IFB) is one of the more unusual armed groups participating in the Syrian civil war. Primarily composed of left-wingContinue Reading
Two Women Travel, Illustrating The Moral Case For Repealing The Eight
On Saturday the 20th of August, two Irish woman, citizens of this Republic, travelled to the United Kingdom where one of them soughtContinue Reading
Rachel Maddow On The Politics Of Abortion
Apologies to the offended but I find myself in broad agreement with this insightful, and bluntly honest, assessment of theContinue Reading
Abortion Prohibitionists Choose To Victim Blame Women And Girls
There are people of both genders around the world who oppose the provision of clinical abortion services to women for aContinue Reading
73% Favour Referendum On The 8th Amendment
The Irish branch of Amnesty International has published the details of a poll it commissioned from Red:C Research & Marketing which seems toContinue Reading
Opposing Abortion Based On Fact Not On Faith
Over the last three years of writing the Sionnach Fionn blog there have been a number of subjects that have drawn vigorous responsesContinue Reading
