https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8-wNL_m5w
Bodger actually choked on his marmalade soldiers.
Sarah de Nordwall of Catholic Voices appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to discuss the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.
To correct the fibbing provide balance, Sarah was joined by Sarah Malone of the Abortion Rights Campaign.
The two latest emails in my inbox sum up politics and parades in Belfast. pic.twitter.com/p4S7gFdf62
— Mark Simpson (@BBCMarkSimpson) July 9, 2013
Parades Commission rules on Orange Order parade in Ardoyne (BBC News NI)
Pro-life chanters at Leinster House doing their thang.
They like big ambitus and that’s no lie Latin
Any excuse
Earlier: Making Camp
Via Paul Reynolds
Hundreds of homes will be without electricity on the night of 11 July because of the risks posed by a bonfire built close to overhead power lines.
The bonfire has been erected in the County Derry village of Articlave, and is sited on land belonging to the Housing Executive.
Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has written to about 300 customers living in the housing estate to inform them.
NIE has urged people to keep bonfires at a safe distance from power lines.
The firm’s communications manager, Julia Carson, said they had taken the decision to remove overhead lines in Articlave for a few hours on Thursday night due to safety concerns.
Articlave bonfire: 300 homes to lose power due to bonfire risk (BBC News NI)
(Albert Gonzalez / Photocall Ireland)
24 TDs voted against legislation to provide abortion strictly when women’s *lives* are at risk. Think about that.
— Ruth NíE (@rowfas) July 2, 2013
From top: Brian Walsh, Billy Timmins, Terence Flanagan and Peter Mathews being met by Caroline Simons of the Pro Life Campaign outside Leinster House last night.
The four Fine Gael TDs were expelled last night from the parliamentary party after voting against the second stage of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.
So what is happening to the bill?
Abortion legislation debate to resume in Dáil (RTE)
Extract via Politics in the Republic of Ireland. Edited by John Coakley and Michael Gallagher Fifth Edition (Routledge)
(Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)
“There is an emerging consensus in Ireland which suggests that having a sense of morality has something to do with the Catholic Church. It is automatically assumed that if you consult your conscience, you are essentially consulting with Rome. This is deeply worrying. It is a lazy way of attempting to undermine the worth of an argument, without actually dealing with the substance. This is not just a Catholic issue, any more than it is a Protestant or Muslim issue. This is not a religious issue. It is a human rights issue.”
Lucinda Creighton in her Dáil speech yesterday claimed her view on the abortion bill is not a religious one.
Feminist activist, Anthea McTeirnan had this to say last weekend at the Empowering Women Through Secularism conference:
The Catholic Church in Ireland stands alone on the issue of reproductive rights.
What do human rights organisations such as Amnesty Ireland and the Irish Council of Civil Liberties (ICCL) have to say?
Dr Alan Brady of the ICCL said the following at the Oireachtas hearings in January:
Ireland is legally obliged under Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights expeditiously to implement judgments against it by the Strasbourg Court.
The Government must now, at an absolute bare minimum, introduce abortion legislation and regulations, including in relation to the issue of suicidal ideation. This is no longer a matter for debate.
The most recent case law from the Strasbourg Court on the issue of reproductive rights indicates that Council of Europe states are obliged to ensure that women seeking lawful terminations are not exposed to inhuman and degrading treatment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Applying this principle in an Irish context, it seems clear to the ICCL that the current treatment of women with pregnancies involving a defined set of fatal foetal abnormalities (i.e. where it is clear that carrying a foetus to term will not result in a viable life) potentially falls foul of Article 3 of the Convention.
Amnesty Ireland is also clear in its stance:
“While government deliberates the legislative and regulatory steps in response to the European Court of Human Rights decision in the A, B & C case, it is obliged under international human rights law to take all necessary steps immediately to ensure women’s access to lawful abortion.”
Amnesty International stressed that any legislative action that falls short of affirming the X case or which seeks to restrict lawful abortion would constitute a row back of human rights.
“Human rights law is also clear on the issue of decriminalisation,” noted Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland.
(Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland)
A respectable and respectful turnout for the Rally Against Hate on the corner of Capel St and Parnell St, Dublin 1.
Fair play though, in fairness.
Pics via John Gallen, Pollytix Memet Uludağ, Jim, Rob O’Sullivan, Sinéad Williams, Michelle Doyle and Brian Reilly
Update:
A video of the event.
A demonstration against SNA cuts from March 2010 when Fine Gael and Labour were in opposition.
All the gang’s there; Bottler, Enda, Hayeser, James Bannon, Eamon, even Willie Penrose.
They even had a Private Members Motion put forward by Brian Hayes.
Fine Gael Special Education Needs Motion – Dail Eireann 31st March 2010 (Dan Neville, Fine Gael TD)
Top pic via SpNeedsParents
(James Horan / Photocall Ireland)
