Labour Senator Ivana Bacik says the 2004 referendum has caused needless suffering and she’s asking the Government to back a new Bill addressing this issue.
It is a fact of life that parents will enter into arrangements of whereby a third party bears their child – so we need legislation that deals directly with surrogacy.
TheJournal.ie has learned that the senator is in discussions over the possibility of joining Fine Gael and running for the seat being vacated by Gay Mitchell next year.
In a year when many families and communities lost a child or young person to suicide, it makes no sense that €29 million pledged to be spent on mental health was not used, writes Tanya Ward.
The report card comes from the Children’s Rights Alliance, which put the Department of Social Protection at the bottom of the class due to child poverty.
The sexual abuse scandals in Australia’s Catholic Church and the BBC show that there is still work to do beyond the contitutional change passed earlier this month, says the Children’s Rights Alliance.
Which electoral area had the highest proportion of ‘Yes’ votes? Which one had the highest percentage of ‘No’ ballots? And into which top 10 does the Taoiseach’s home constituency fall?
The government’s scaled-down version of ChildrensReferendum.ie needed amending this evening after it omitted part of the referendum being held on Saturday.
LAST SATURDAY SAW one of the largest protest marches in Ireland in recent months, as thousands descended on Dublin city centre to call for help from the government during a cost-of-living crisis.
Dozens of campaign groups, from students to pensioners, carers to climate activists, flooded O’Connell Street before marching to Merrion Square, to demand action for those struggling to make ends meet.
Organisers of the march made no secret of their hope that Dublin would see a march of people not seen since the Right2Water marches of 2015.
So, today we’re asking: When did you last attend a protest march?
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