Irish people victims of campaign of concealment by Government
There are profound ethical, accountability and constitutional issues in light of the belated discovery of documents demonstrating that the Irish people were victims of a campaign of sustained concealment by their own government in the course of the referendums on the family and care. It isn’t a matter of those who opposed the referendums engaging […]
New Dublin taskforce needs to devise robust solutions for the city
The bottom is falling out of the new office property market in Dublin. Commencement notifications for new office developments have dried up. While cranes are still visible on the skyline on office developments that have commenced, the penny seems to have dropped that there just won’t be all those tenants willing to pay top-dollar rents […]
Ireland’s capacity to control migration in a sustainable way is broken
I was intrigued by a recent correspondent’s report on BBC World Service that Israeli citizens are applying as asylum seekers for international protection in Portugal. The report stated that an increasing number of Israeli citizens who were displaced by Hizbullah shelling of Northern Israel or felt threatened in Israel from the Hamas rocketry from Gaza were travelling to Portugal […]
Parents must guide how sex education is taught in schools
There has been some degree of public controversy in recent times concerning the role of schools in educating children concerning sexuality, gender identity, and the treatment of dysphoria and self-identification by children and adolescents. The whole question of gender identity among children and adolescents has become a much greater issue in the last decade than […]
If the worst happens, who would come to Ireland’s defence?
It is a strange irony that the majority of EU states, including NATO members, are collectively considering how to deal with the threat posed by the emergence of a militarist Russia under Vladimir Putin which seems bent on reestablishing a dominance over neighbouring states such as Ukraine, Georgia, the Caucasus states, and on forming a […]
EU asylum pact is in danger of being rushed through without scrutiny
There is a massive black hole in Ireland’s legislative relationship with the European Union. Our parliamentary committees do not effectively monitor EU legislative developments in advance of their enactment at EU level. Nor do our parliamentary committees effectively oversee the transposition or non-transposition of EU decisions into domestic law by regulation. A Seanad oversight committee […]