A society can best be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members. Unfortunately, Ireland’s current treatment of unborn children with disabilities, chiefly Down syndrome, leaves a shameful mark on our society. During the referendum campaign in 2018, government politicians and prominent Yes campaigners tried to pour cold water on entirely reasonable forecasts from…
Last week the media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, released an updated draft online safety code which will now be submitted to the European Commission for assessment. The code focuses on video-sharing platforms that are headquartered in Ireland. This in itself is problematic, for example, Snapchat which is hugely popular among young people doesn’t have their…
Fr Myron J. Pereira For several decades in the last century, it was taken for granted that secularism was an important component of modernity. This was undoubtedly the inspiration behind the Constituent Assembly declaring in 1950 India a “secular republic” and not a “Hindu rashtra” (nation). How society existed yesterday… Traditionally, most societies have had…
In 2015, the governments of Ireland and Kenya played an important role in co-facilitating the global agreement that is known as the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs as you may have heard them called The impact of the work of Ireland and Kenya together had the potential to be huge but it is starting to…
Letter from Rome After Pope Francis sparked a wave of controversy for using an off-colour gay slur, he now appears to be attempting to mend fences, offering reassurances to a homosexual man turned away from seminary and writing the preface to a book by a prominent LGBTQ+ activist priest. On June 4, the Italian version…
Notebook The ‘Big Day’ has come and gone: Confirmation Day in my parish, that is. was one of those pastors fortunate to be assigned a ceremony in the Easter season, so we celebrated the sacrament in Castlehaven and Myross Parish on April 26, the day after my birthday. I feel lucky to have had such…
Does anti-Semitism exist in Ireland and how widespread is it? How do you even define the term? Ever since the brutal war in Gaza began last year, following the Hamas atrocities inside Israel, criticism of Israel in this country and elsewhere has intensified. The criticisms are so strong, that many Jews are saying it is…
The World is Big and I’m so Small’, is the title of a children’s book that I’ve never read. Maybe I should pick it up sometime. I suspect a lot of voters, as they prepare their list for the European and local election candidates, feel a bit daunted by the list of problems facing the…
Around the beginning of this century, I worked on London newspaper alongside a lively and admirable writer, Andrew Pierce. I came to know that Andrew was adopted, and just recently he has published an account of his search for his birth mother, ‘Finding Margaret’. Margaret’s story was not an unusual one. She was a nurse…
The Irish Dominicans are celebrating 800 years in this country. They arrived a mere eight years after the founding of the Order and just three after the death of St Dominic. At the time of writing, the seventh most popular article on The Atlantic website is about wisdom to be gleaned from great Dominicans. (The…
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