Monthly Archives: June 2012

Members of Youth Defence/Life Institute launching their nationwide anti-abortion campaign earlier this month. From left: Lucy Mc Donald, Niamh Lu Bhriain and Aine O Connell.

Dr David Robert Grimes writes:

“One would require a large sample group over a long period to see whether the women were more likely to have mental issues than those in a control group.That is the methodology used by a group of doctors in Denmark who charted the psychological health of 365,550 women, including 84,620 who had had abortions.

…Essentially these studies found there was no difference in mental health between those who opted for abortion and those who carried to term. Curiously, there was a markedly increased risk to mental health for women who gave a child up for adoption.

A corollary of the research was that while women did not suffer long-term mental health effects due to abortion, short-term guilt and sadness was far more likely if the women had a background where abortion was viewed negatively or their decisions were decried – the kind of attitude fostered by “pro-life” activists.

This leads to the dark irony that while groups of this ilk claim to support women, they increase the suffering of women who have had abortions – the very women they ostensibly claim to help.”

Facts Still Sacred Despite Ireland’s Spectrum Of conflicting Views On Abortion (David Robert Grimes, irish Times)

DavidRobertGrimes.com (twitter: @drg1985)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile, On Youth Defence’s Facebook:

The “pro-aborts”.

Really?

Thanks Conor

 

All backs scratched.

The decision covers Bank of Ireland’s chief executive Richie Boucher (top) and Kevin Murphy (above), a director of Irish Life and Permanent Group Holdings. The Central Bank said last night that over the past 12 months while it conducted its review, many of the long-standing directors of the lenders covered by the bank guarantee had resigned.It said it had no reason to suspect the fitness and probity of any directors currently in place who were on boards of Irish banks during the night of the guarantee.

 

Central Bank probe Concludes Bankers Who Were Present During The Banking Guarantee Period Can Remain (RTE)

(Laura Hutton, Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

This is an engagement video.

Ciara King writes:

A friend of mine from Connemara got engaged in Canada last week and made an engagement video with his Fiance’s family in Canada to the tune of Snoop Dogg’s “Ain’t Nuthin But A G Thang’,

His name is Henry Shepard, he’s from Clifden and we went to school together in Clifden Community School. He has been with his girlfriend Joanie from Canada for about 6 years and proposed last week.

They have a company based in Canada called Henjo Films, and they made the video with her family for the laugh, and posted it on his Facebook page. Compared to some of the other “stuff” that goes viral, I genuinely thought this one merits a viral take off.”

 

G-Force Garda Niall O’Connor (left) and Sgt. Paul Franey, Vice President of the European Gay Police Association with the President and Sabina Higgins at Aras an Uachtarain on Thursday.

A sizeable contingent of the EGPA will march in uniform at the  Pride celebrations tomorrow while their Garda colleagues march in plain clothes.A spokesperson for the Garda press office said yesterday that officers attending Pride were off duty and as such were prohibited from wearing uniforms. The policy contrasts with usual practice in Britain and across Europe where police officers have been wearing uniforms in such marches for much of the past decade.

 

Uniform Ban At Pride March Criticised (Roisin Ingle, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov, Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

STATE-OWNED bank AIB yesterday disclosed that it paid €4,500 a month for a Dublin apartment used by David Hodgkinson during his term as executive chairman of the bank.

Mr Hodgkinson stayed in the apartment, the location of which the bank declined to reveal, throughout 2011 while he was executive chairman. Since assuming a non-executive role following the appointment of David Duffy as chief executive of the bank last December, Mr Hodgkinson stopped using the apartment.

“Do you know how hard it is to find a place to live here in Ballsbridge?” he said to the Guardian’s Lisa O’Carroll in an interview last year.

Hmm.

Chairman’s flat cost AIB €4,500 a month (Irish Times)

Mortgage arrears at AIB still on the rise (Irish Times)

(Laura Huttonl/Photocall Ireland)