Yes 66.4%

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Under the green gaze of John Mandeville, a red-faced man roars at a pregnant woman that she is a murderer. In the Square in Mitchelstown,...

Good riddance to Peter Casey, Ireland’s Micro-Trump

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Whether he meant to or not, presidential candidate Peter Casey should not be forgiven for the racial hate he stirred up in the bloodpot...

James Deeny: The doctor who saved hundreds of Bessborough babies’ lives

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Dr James Deeny defied Church and State in 1940s Ireland to temporarily close Cork’s Bessborough mother and baby home. The subsequent drop in the...

Majella Moynihan: “I was torn apart by misogynist bastards within An...

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Former Garda Majella Moynihan – who says she is the only person in the world to be charged with giving birth - talks with...

The anti-choice argument is lost. Hence the dirty tricks

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about the Eighth Amendment this week. I wrote about the historical context of Ireland’s utterly dysfunctional attitude...

Walking through Fermoy, the past is far away and yet very...

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“Emily Helena (indecipherable) Daughter. But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand.” Another small gravestone still reads “Sacred to the memory of Jane, daughter...

Laundering the Magdalene Past

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“They took my hair, they took my human rights, they took my clothes, they took my name, but they never took my spirit” -...

Lavinia Kerwick – still changing Ireland for the better

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Last month Taoiseach Micheál Martin committed to addressing a spate of sexual assaults against homeless people on the streets of Cork. The woman who secured that commitment,...

The Boy in the Stinging Rebuke from Auschwitz

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“No one may dare alter the truths of the Holocaust, no matter how noble his motives.” By Donal O’Keeffe. Boy did John Boyne get his...

The very least we can do for survivors like Sheila is...

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Sheila was 19 when she was imprisoned in 1976 for the crime of 'falling pregnant'. She was enslaved and subjected to appalling cruelty, and...

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