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Post by hibernicus on Oct 7, 2010 11:26:02 GMT
Ronan mullen sent a post about his recent end-of-life proposals in the seanad to Mark Shea, who publishes it with comments. Clearly Ronan M thinks Shea has enough Irish readers to make this worthwhile. markshea.blogspot.com/2010/10/hey-ireland.html
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Post by hibernicus on Oct 11, 2010 17:20:41 GMT
BTW I notice from the press reports that Ronan Mullen played a significant role in helping to defeat the proposal that the Council of Europe should declare access to abortion a human right and call for the removal of the right to conscientious objection from medical personnel. Another good reason to vote for him if you have a NUI vote. This is greeted by some of the atheist bigot members of Politics.ie [note; Politics.ie caters for a wide range of views; I am NOT SAYING they are ALL or even mostly, atheist bigots, just that several such bigots are found thereon] under the heading below: www.politics.ie/europe/140224-christian-politicians-subvert-eu-women-s-rights-bill.html I should note that even some of the atheists and pro-choicers posting on the thread dissent from this way of looking at the subject.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 1, 2010 13:00:24 GMT
Senator Denis O'Donovan, FF, former TD for Cork SW in a Seanad debate in relation to the Roscommon child abuse report denounced the role of "right-wing Catholic organisations" in the catastrophe, compared them to the Ku Klux Klan and said "we should stop shilly-shallying and bowing our heads to these right-wing extremists". Note the following: (1) The only "right-wing Catholic organisation" that I am aware of as being involved in the debacle consisted of Mine Bean Ui Chribin and some of her friends and associates. Senator O'Donovan is tarring all "right-wing Catholic organisations" with the same brush, which is like saying that all "republicans", however defined, are responsible for the Real IRA bomb on the railtracks in Lurgan the other night. (2) Bean Ui Chribin's misguided intervention was wholly indefensible - at the very least it was undertaken without due investigation of the circumstances and contributed to the continued suffering of the children (because the possibility of a serious legal challenge threw the Health Board into a panic). I notice BTW that in her legal challenge Bean Ui Chribin and her associates offered to help the family - I wonder did this help ever materialise? The fact remains that their actions were entirely legal and carried out in the public domain, and apparently in the misguided belief that they were doing good; despite the horrible results of their intervention, it is quite unjust to compare them to a secret murder gang like the Ku Klux Klan. (3) Senator O'Donovan is one of the FF senators who lost the whip over the Dog Breeding Bill, suggesting he has an eye on the laws of electoral self-preservation. The fact that a FF senator in a rural constituency which had high pro-life and anti-divorce votes in the 80s thinks he can get some mileage out of denouncing "right-wing Catholic orgnisations" generally suggests he is reponding to the public mood, and it's not a good sign. If Senator O'Donovan presents himself to the electorate at the next Dail election this outburst should be borne in mind. I would also suggest that Mine Bean Ui Chribin, instead of refusing to talk to the media, should come forward and explain herself and take responsibility for her blunders rather than allowing all pro-family campaigners to be held responsible for her misguided intervention. www.tribune.ie/news/editorial-opinion/article/2010/oct/31/politics-the-insider/
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 2, 2010 15:06:12 GMT
On reflection I my be unjust to Senator o'Donovan; it is possible that he is expressing honest and spontaneous indignation at the whole horror. It's still significant - and if this possibility is true, even more ominous, that he shouls spontaneously blame all "right-wing Catholics" indiscriminately and compare the public expression of such views to the criminal secret activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Demonisation is a milestone on the road to persecution, and we have gone a long way down that path in the last couple of decades.
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