Vótáil Tá – Vote Yes to Repeal the 8th Amendment
Last Sunday, 13th May 2018, members of DiEM25 met in Belfast. That same day, eleven women, from both sides of the Irish border, travelled to England and Wales for an abortion that would have been illegal in Ireland. There was nothing unusual in that. It is an everyday occurrence. In 2016 just under 4,000 women from the island of Ireland had to travel to Britain for an abortion. In other words, eleven women a day. As if that wasn’t bad enough, these women risk long-term damage
World Press Freedom Day
Motion 157 This DM notes that, more than sixteen years after the murder
of the investigative journalist and Belfast Branch officer ,
there have been no convictions for the crime, despite the identities of
those who ordered and carried out the assassination being widely known.
Noting the failure of the investigation by UK police services, especially the
PSNI, DM instructs the NEC to seek to enlist the support of OSCE, the
Council of Europe and the UN for an effect intern
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Whose blood is thicker, theirs or ours?
Many years ago, Edward Said, the towering Palestinian American intellectual who founded the academic field of post-colonialist studies said in Orientalism: ‘Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say c
