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I'm writing this while still giddy from the news that the Joint Committee on the 8th Amendment voted unequivocally to put a repeal referendum to the nation.  The 8th amendment is now 34 years old. I just turned 33. It was voted in while I…

On the 24th of April this year, the Central Statistics Office will carry out a census likely to reveal that an overwhelming amount of people in this country consider themselves to be Catholic. This comes almost eleven months after Ireland…

How many of us have ever read our Constitution? How many of us have had ten minutes to kill to sit down and actually see what it says? One might be curious when there are so many issues facing modern Ireland where we hear constitutional…

For a number of years now, polls on Irish attitudes to abortion have shown a considerable shift away from a previous hard line stance towards a more tolerant and practical approach. A recent poll reflected that 64% of farmers - a…

This week, #ShoutYourAbortion dominated Twitter’s trending topics. Amelia Bonow started the hashtag when she heard that the United States’ House of Representatives voted to stop funding Planned Parenthood for one year. She took to Facebook…

The Fourth Annual March for Choice takes place this Saturday September 26th. In the lead up to the march, Kate Doran takes a look at Ireland's abortions laws over the years, examines the harm they have repeatedly caused women, and tells us…