Anti-Abortion Campaigners Promote Voting Fraud Conspiracy Theory To Explain Defeat
One notable feature of the recent referendum on removing Article Eight of Bunreacht na hÉireann was the adoption of American-styleContinue Reading
Tag: Bunreacht na hÉireann – Constitution of Ireland
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
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
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
Anti-Choice Campaigners Use Same Tech As The Trump, Brexit And NRA Campaigns
As Ireland moves towards a plebiscite on revoking the restrictive 8th Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, some observers have notedContinue 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
Did We Barter Articles 2 And 3 For No Stormont And No Good Friday Agreement?
Concerns are growing that we may be witnessing a terminal collapse in the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement (GFA) of 1998,Continue Reading
Neutral Ireland And The Threat Of A Nuclear-Armed European Union
With the Fine Gael-led minority government, like the FG-Labour coalition before it, playing footsie with NATO and the European Union’sContinue Reading
When It Comes To The Irish Language Saoradh Looks to Éirígí For Inspiration
Saoradh, the self-styled “Revolutionary Irish Republican Party”, has published the organisation’s constitution on its Facebook Page (though not on itsContinue Reading
Not Merely Free But Gaelic 1916-2016
In August of 1915, Patrick H. Pearse, future president and commander-in-chief of the Provisional Government and Army of the IrishContinue 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
Don’t Hate The Gays, Hate The Mothers Who Made Them Gay
The recent decision by a majority of voters in Ireland to support the inclusion of marriage-equality in our constitution continues to echo around the world,Continue Reading
LGBT Rights In Ireland Cannot Be Partitioned
No doubt most of you are aware that the referendum proposing the addition of a gender-neutral description of marriageContinue Reading
Fathers And Mothers Matter, Respect And Understanding Not So Much
We are in the last week of the referendum campaign debating the addition of a new sub-section to Bunreacht naContinue Reading
Bronze Age Desert Cults Dislike The 21st Century
Well here’s two doubly depressing reports relating to the upcoming constitutional referendum which – if successful – will see aContinue Reading
The Super Scary, Quite Contrary Equal-Marriage Referendum In Ireland
Buzzfeed, the popular American click-bait site which has recently acquired a serious case of the journalistic respectables, has a fairly lengthy articleContinue Reading
Tabhair Dom Do Lámh
As you may have guessed An Sionnach Fionn fully supports the proposed amendment to the definition of marriage as outlined in Article 41 ofContinue Reading
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