Right now.
On O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, supporters of the repeal the 8th movement call on the Government to set a date for a referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment – as part of the Strike4Repeal.
Previously: Black Flu
Pics: Shannon, Joe Harrington (top) Buzz O’Neill Maxwell and Eoghan Kidney
Meanwhile…
In Maynooth…
#repealthe8th supporters chant “what about Tuam, hands off my womb” at pro-lifers #INDvsAUS #Strike4Repeal pic.twitter.com/aUqbEOEx1b
— Laura Silver (@laurafleur) March 8, 2017
Laura Silver tweetz:
#repealthe8th supporters chant “what about Tuam, hands off my womb” at pro-lifers…
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“what about Tuam, hands off my womb”
* thinks *
What would they sing if it had happened in Tralee?
*stands back and applauds*
or Clonmany
Or worse…. Coolock !
Ballydehob
A complicated issue. Being conflated with other complicated issues.
All to do with the subjugation and control of women.
Wow that’s a lot of people.
Didn’t expect that midweek.
Shows how important an issue it is to us when hundreds will mobilise for a Wednesday lunchtime.
Students.
+ Nicest day of the year
Yes, and students get pregnant too.
Oh believe me , I know ! :)
you old dog
booked the day off weeks ago, pal. definitely not just students
They should get out and walk more often. Not a single size 6 amongst them.
Maybe they’re all a bit pregnant , but haven’t started showing properly yet!
Or…. maybe it’s a pot belly…. this came to mind… :)
Fabienne: I was looking at myself in the mirror.
Butch: Uh-huh?
Fabienne: I wish I had a pot.
Butch: You were lookin’ in the mirror and you wish you had some pot?
Fabienne: A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy.
Butch: Well you should be happy, ’cause you do.
Fabienne: Shut up, Fatso! I don’t have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did “Lucky Star,” it’s not the same thing.
Butch: I didn’t realize there was a difference between a tummy and a pot belly.
Fabienne: The difference is huge.
Butch: You want me to have a pot?
Fabienne: No. Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy. The rest of you is normal. Normal face, normal legs, normal hips, normal ass, but with a big, perfectly round pot belly. If I had one, I’d wear a tee-shirt two sizes too small to accentuate it.
Butch: You think guys would find that attractive?
Fabienne: I don’t give a damn what men find attractive. It’s unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.
One of my fave scenes.
+1
And she’s dead right, btw.
True, Madonna did have a tummy in that video :)
And of course NOTHING on RTE news.
Apparently contributors to RTE have been told to cool it on their Repeal the 8th support. Well not apparently, they have been told.
Sure the church run this state whether you like or not!
Meanwhile, Ireland joins cloud cuckoo land by passing into law Section 25 of the Criminal Law Sexual Offences Act 2017 which places a ban on purchasing sex.
As I heard noted, the law now says you cannot buy what the market permits to be sold.
I would like to attribute this temporary insanity to Ireland, but the accolade goes to the lunatic fringe in Sweden, where ironically the law has failed.
#endemand….yeah right. How naive can they be, or more appropriately how dangerous are fringe lunatics when they get their hands on the leavers of power?
Baçik and the Nuns at Ruhama at work.
Agree 100%
Isn’t that to ensure that those selling sex aren’t prosecuted but those buying are? Or am I mistaken? If the law permitted both sale and purchase without censure then Ireland would surely become a pretty big destination for sex tourism.
Am I missing something?
“Am I missing something?”
Yeah. Lots.
Clueless
The irony of rightly reviling infant deaths and mistreatment at Tuam and cheerleading for abortion – which causes the death and disposal of human foetuses – is remarkable.
There’s no irony. There’s a massive difference between campaigning for women to have the choice to abort a clump of cells or a FFA and forcing them to have a child, taking the child from them, letting it die from neglect and then dumping the body in a disused sewage tank.
We’re using ‘fatal fetal abnormality” as a noun to describe an actual human foetus now?
They are not “cheerleading for abortion”! No one does. Such an idiotic thing to say. There is nothing ironic here. It would appear you know the meaning of neither cheerleading nor ironic.
Newsjustin, which do you think felt more pain and suffering? A foetus aborted (chemically induced miscarriage) before the getstation is in double figures, or toddlers starved to death by religious orders who couldn’t make money off them?
Certainly children who starved to death, without a doubt.
Abortion is really quick.
What disgusting thing to say. Have you no shame?
Not unexpected from you, and misguided as usual.
I give 4/10. You also need to work on your delivery.
Both issues are related to the lack of reproductive choices and treatment of women in this society.
Not hard to understand at all.
That’s a fair point. But it’s still ironic.
Your all complete idiots, answering ridiculous comments like that is the worst thing you can do.
Irony meter – offline
You’re one sick little puppy
Good boy though in fairness
The irony of conflating the last vestige of a system designed to subjugate women with the aspect of the system that showed the ultimate contempt for any notion of freedom or choice or even respect for life – obliging women to bear children, then treating those children s disposable.
The Tuam deaths appear to have stopped in 1960. How many countries had legal abortion then? Not sure if it was a viable option for the women then.
Paul Redmond, a Castlepollard survivor was on Matt Cooper yesterday. He said that the exessive deaths stopped when the nuns found that a change in the law meant they could monitise the babies born. I wonder if the money invested from child trafficking has helped the Bons Secours become the largest private hospital provider in the country?
It has. Their first maternity hospital was founded in 1951. How did they raise the money for it?
Matt Cooper is really good most of the time, I’ve found.
Pity the new TodayFM app is such utter gubbins, it’s impossible to listen back to anything now.
Have they no homes to go to?
Mother and Baby homes?
Stop beating around our bushes
Now that’s a good one
Imagine what would have happened if I’d a had that placard back in the day
even in ’92
I’d say I would have been charged with sum’ting
Stop trashing around where a Trish gets thrush
The sign in photo number four says it all…”Trust Women”. That’s all it take really.
True. They are our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, our teachers our nurses etc., Isn’t it time we grew up and recognized them as full human beings capable of rational thought?
I wish they could protest without grinding the whole city centre to a standstill. I had to walk 50 minutes to a medical appointment. That’s fin, – I’m able-bodied but I noticed a lot of elderly people trapped at bus stops with shopping. Took a few hours for the situation to get back to normal.