There is a storm coming. I’m not referring to our thunderous march towards socialism and the inevitable political and fiscal turmoil that will bring. Nor am I speculating about further shocking revelations that will unearth the depths to which our social institutions are morally bankrupt. No. There’s a referendum a coming, and this one is relentless, dangerous and may blight Irish society for generations.
This referendum is not the endorsing of an international treaty that will sign away sovereignty and ensure the creation of jobs (not my words, lest we forget). It is not a referendum to introduce abortion, which let’s face it Ireland still hasn’t grown up enough to debate that one like adults – I am still reeling over being told by some femi-nazi from the UCD School of ‘I am woman, hear me roar’ that “women owned the word rape”. Read the rest of this entry »
This is rather a late post it should have been post over a week ago but it had to be published first…
There is no greater evil than that which has been inflicted upon the victims of child sexual abuse. It is a crime for which suffering knows no end. Counseling helps, justice can satisfy, but nothing will heal the emotional scars. It has a legacy of fear that can crush a soul.
For those who suffered at the hands of any abuser, and I am not just talking about paedophile priests, seeing headlines about any abuse case is an ordeal. You are forced to relive in your mind, and in the most vivid of detail, your trauma, your self-loathing, your fear.
You can’t sleep at night because you dread what horrors you will recall in your dreams. You jump at the slightest touch from someone unfamiliar or you recoil in panic as certain smells violently evoke memories of abuse. You live in fear of what your own senses will uncover from your repressed childhood. Read the rest of this entry »
The constitutional review currently taking place has been labelled “a shambles to date” by one member of the Students’ Union executive.
Refusing to be named, the executive member has slammed the entire process as “lacking transparency”.
“The entire thing is farcical, it’s making a mockery out of the whole process”, the executive member told the College View.
“There is an agenda of a few individuals and the process is not transparent, the union executive have no clue what’s going on and the student body has yet to be consulted on what they would like to see included… ware not even sure if our submissions have been considered, the entire thing is a shambles to date,” they added. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Greens are something of a distraction for me, and ever since they became the new junior coalition partners I have watched their growth in government with interest.
Fianna Fail has always been accused of swallowing up any smaller party that is brave (or stupid) enough to go into government with them – it is fair to say that this is well earned reputation. The Green party were, as a colleague put in a comment piece recently, just simply too ‘green’ for government. But I and clearly the majority of the country simply had no confidence that the rest could do any better. Have we been proven wrong? Well if we look at the behaviour of the opposition over the last ten years can we be confident that they, if the tables were turned would have done any different? Read the rest of this entry »
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