Border Poll Warnings, Same-Sex And Abortion Rights Votes At Westminster
The very public warning by Simon Hoare, the senior Conservative Party MP and Chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs SelectContinue Reading
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The very public warning by Simon Hoare, the senior Conservative Party MP and Chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs SelectContinue Reading
Like many political observers I was more than a little apprehensive about the outcome of last Friday’s referendum on repealingContinue Reading
Given the reputation of Irish exit polling, the results below may well be the cause of good cheer for theContinue Reading
The conservative journalist and occasional tantrum-artist John Waters makes a brief appearance on The Stand, Eamon Dunphy’s current affairs’ podcast,Continue Reading
Judging by the apparent “swarming” of public meetings and events around the country by groups of anti-choice activists along with aContinue Reading
The Journal has a feature on yesterday’s small protest outside the iconic GPO building in Dublin, the seat of theContinue Reading
Given the ongoing preparations for the referendum on the Eight Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, scheduled for the end ofContinue Reading
Lift up a particular rock in Irish politics and what do you find crawling and squirming underneath but a swarmContinue Reading
As most readers are aware, I support the availability of abortion through the health service in Ireland, disdaining the present, inhumaneContinue Reading
As WorldByStorm notes there are some surprising results from last weekend’s Irish Times poll on abortion (yes, yet another one). A clearContinue Reading
Perhaps it is my analytical mind, a beneficial side-effect of a career in the IT industry, but for me the question ofContinue Reading
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
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
On Saturday the 20th of August, two Irish woman, citizens of this Republic, travelled to the United Kingdom where one of them soughtContinue Reading
Apologies to the offended but I find myself in broad agreement with this insightful, and bluntly honest, assessment of theContinue Reading
There are people of both genders around the world who oppose the provision of clinical abortion services to women for aContinue Reading
The Irish branch of Amnesty International has published the details of a poll it commissioned from Red:C Research & Marketing which seems toContinue Reading
Over the last three years of writing the Sionnach Fionn blog there have been a number of subjects that have drawn vigorous responsesContinue Reading