Senator Ronan Mullen, Author at The Irish Catholic

Bishops do their bit in calling out referenda … now parishes must follow

A view from the Seanad The statement from the Catholic bishops on the referendums on ‘Family’ and ‘Care’ on March 8 is covered elsewhere in these pages, but I’d like to offer a couple of observations. Bishops, these days, are slow to say ‘Vote Yes or No’ to anything. They rightly judge that any direct exhortation can…

Irish children are the real losers as mothers and parents erased from Constitution

A ‘No, No’ on the two referendum proposals would be an appropriate response. My Seanad colleague Michael McDowell was right to refer to this choice of polling day as a ‘gimmick’. It might otherwise be harmless were it not that, in order to secure the vote for this date, the Government rushed, and effectively subverted, the normal…

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