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Enda Kenny TD responds to the death of Charles Haughey
“I learned of the death of Charles Haughey with much personal regret. There will be other days to reflect on Mr Haughey, the politician. But today, the day of his death, I want to pay my respects to Charles Haughey the man: father, husband, grandfather, parliamentary colleague. “I’ve known Charles Haughey throughout my political career and found him to be personally warm, engaging, thoughtful and courteous. “Obviously, Mr Haughey the politician will dominate news and commentary over the coming...
10,000 Gay Irish Citizens Denied Right To Marry
2 May 2006 The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has welcomed the publication of a new study revealing the number of gays and lesbians who have chosen to marry in countries that uphold marriage equality. Marriage equality is enshrined in the laws of the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and the US state of Massachusetts, where the constitution forbids the creation of second-class citizens. In the first 20 months after equality was legalised in Massachusetts, 14,682 residents wed a partner...
Submission to Domestic Partnership Working Group
Submission from Stephen Spillane, Finance Officer,University College Cork, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered SocietyWorking Group Member,Union of Students of Ireland, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Campaign In today’s society nothing is or should be taking for granted. People have to look for security in their lives at all times. When it comes to domestic partnerships, security is lacking, if something happens to one of the partners, they have no rights to each others property even if it is held...
Report shows 3% rise in suicide rate in last year – Neville
- 457 deaths by suicide in 2004- 356 men and 101 women took their own lives- Highest rate of suicide (22%) between ’98 and ’02 was among 15-24 year olds Fine Gael Deputy Health Spokesperson and President of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Dan Neville TD said today (Friday) that the 2004 Annual Report of the National Suicide Review Group confirmed that the suicide rate had increased again in 2004. Deputy Neville said that resources available for suicide prevention...
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Must be Properly Funded For It to Be Effective-Neville
Received the following Press Release from Fine Gael National Headquarters about the Governments Suicide Prevention Strategy Following the launch of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, Fine Gael’s Deputy Spokesperson on Health and Children, Dan Neville TD, today (Thursday) welcomed the new proposals as a step towards highlighting and dealing with this very serious public health issue and urged the Government to ensure that the necessary funding would be made available. “It would be unrealistic to expect a magic...
Government Leaving Down Cork
Within the last 12 months the Government has held one cabinet meeting in Cork City after which the Taoiseach announced that the ‘Government was committed to Cork’. The question is; is the Government really committed to Cork? At the last general election the Government promised that there would be extra Gardaí on the streets. The Government has yet to follow through with this promise as more and more Gardaí get caught to do more paper work as the ‘PULSE’...
Same-sex Marriage in Ireland?
Will it ever happen? In recent years same-sex marriages and civil unions have become the norm in many jurisdictions around the world. Within Europe nearly every country has discussed laws dealing with same-sex marriage and civil unions. Belgium, Holland and now Spain all allow same-sex marriages while many other countries allow civil unions or give gay couples some rights. These countries are very varied from France, the UK (next December) to the Scandinavian countries. In Ireland it is a...
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