Children’s Rights Referendum ‘Opportunity to Tighten Legal Loophole on Abortion’:16th Mar 07
“Children’s Rights is a Fashionable Liberal Cause, But Only If Those Children are Born"
According to the Irish Catholic newspaper’s Brendan O’Regan, “listening to all the media...More >>
Professor Binchy Raises Concerns about Children's Rights Referendum:6th Mar 07
Children’s Rights Referendum Wording Opens 'Wide Range' of Interpretations—Trinity College Dublin Law Professor
The wording of the Government's planned referendum on children...More >>
Irish MEP—Government Trying to Persuade Us that Referendum is ‘Pro-Child’:28th Feb 07
'The Government Will Try to Persuade Us That its Amendments are Pro-child. I Hope we Will Not be So Gullible as to Believe It'
Irish MEP, Kathy Sinnott, writing in "The Irish...More >>
Referendum on Children’s Rights—‘Bill's Fatal Ambiguities Must be Addressed’:22nd Feb 07
The Children's Rights Amendment Text is "Fatally Ambiguous" on Some Issues, "Reflecting the Ambiguities of the Political Debate up to this Point"
Although there is much to be...More >>
Children and Parents Could be Big Losers in Constitutional Referendum as...:16th Feb 07
Forthcoming Constitutional Amendment on Children's Rights—Judgement of Supreme Court Judge in Adoption Case Deserves Close Scrutiny
At first sight it seems like a great idea...More >>
Health Board Arranges Abortion—Baby’s Body Used as Evidence in Irish Rape Trial:15th Feb 07
Aborted Baby Used as Evidence to Secure Conviction in Irish Rape Trial—Court Hears Evidence that 'DNA Analysis on Foetal Matter from the Abortion' Matched that of the Father
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Claim that Proposed Referendum Would Not Interfere with Core Rights of Family...:30th Jan 07
Government Minister Claims that Childrens' Referendum Not to Affect Core Rights of the Family Enshrined in Irish Constitution
There would be no question of any of the proposed...More >>
High Court Judge Rules—Right to Marry is Confined, under the Irish...:15th Dec 06
Judge Rejects Arguments of Lesbian Couple and Confirms "Marriage is Confined to Persons of Opposite Sex"
A lesbian couple, Dr Ann Louise Gilligan and Dr Katherine Zappone do...More >>
Referendum Must Protect Family:25th Nov 06
Family the Fundamental Unit of Society—UN Charter on Human Rights
The proposed children’s rights amendment to the Irish Constitution should recognise the family as the...More >>
Supporting Families, Investing in All Our Future’s:23rd Nov 06
The Family as the “Natural Primary and Fundamental Unit Group of Society”—State has a Role in "Encouraging and Sustaining" Family Life
According to "Irish Catholic" newspaper...More >>