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…
If a woman has not had her first child by the time she is 30, statistically, she has only a 50% chance of ever having a baby. It’s a shocking fact that we can no longer ignore. We find ourselves in a space where couples experience involuntary childlessness, i.e. those who always wanted children but…
When it comes to private companies receiving state funding, surely one of the first things the Government should insist on is a cost-benefit analysis. Sadly, the opposite is happening when it comes to assisting couples struggling to conceive. Last September the Government introduced a state subsidy for IVF for eligible couples. Since then around 500…
Last October the South East Technological University (SETU) launched their ‘Gender Identity and Expression Policy’. But lecturer Colette Colfer, a lecturer in world religions questioned the document’s impacts on compelling speech and policing language. One of her concerns was that the policy maintained that a refusal to use preferred pronouns was an example of “unlawful…
The Government’s monumental defeat in the referendum showed how truly out of touch they were with the Irish people. The aftermath saw many calling for Fine Gael to get back to its Christian democratic roots with critics saying that too much time has been spent appeasing the woke brigade and too little on bread and…
Ireland’s policy for registering stillborn babies is regressive, writes Wendy Grace Hearing of any family who have had a stillborn baby would lead most people, I am sure, to empathise with the unbearable pain of losing a child. Of course, we want to do all we can to support any family in a time of…
Assisted suicide, and/or euthanasia, now accounts for one in 20 deaths in the Netherlands. This was just one of the many disturbing pieces of evidence presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on ‘Assisted Dying’. Today it’s expected the committee will make a recommendation to introduce assisted suicide and euthanasia into Irish legislation. We are meant…
On Friday you will be asked to vote on two changes to our Constitution. Perhaps you, like much of the country, don’t really understand what it’s all about, and I don’t blame you because it seems neither does the Government! Their stance has been one that is based on confusion rather than clarity, and hollow…
Can you imagine leaving your six year old in a playground knowing there was a predator there waiting to groom them? Or bringing them with you to a violent over 18s film and asking them to close their eyes, hoping they might not see. Would you hand them a pack of 20 cigarettes because, well,…
The View On March 8, one of the amendments to our Constitution that you are being asked to vote on seeks to remove the recognition and protection given to the extraordinary role that women and mothers play in society. In fact, a ‘Yes’ vote would remove the word mother from the Constitution entirely. As well…