The Irish Catholic reports (not sure of publication date) that there is growing support for a concientious objector or ‘religious freedom’ amendment to the Civil Partnership Bill. (h/t Ian) Amongst the TD’s quoted as being supportive are Mattie McGrath (FF – Tipperary South) and Lucinda Creighton (FG Dublin South East) Irish Catholic editor (and former [...]
Tags:#cpbill·Dublin South East·Fianna Fáil·Fine Gael·Labour·Lucinda Creighton·Mattie McGrath
The Second Stage Debate for the Civil Partnership Bill will take place on December 3rd at 6.45pm and is scheduled to take two hours. There will be Committee and Report stages scheduled at a later date. (This is where the opposition and sometimes government propose amendments to the Bill.) Thursday night means a load of [...]
Tags:#cpbill·Catholic Church·Child abuse·Civil Partnership Bill
Press Release in from Green Party – note the mention of the possiblity of a freedom of concience amendment. Cuffe welcomes introduction of Civil Partnership Bill to Dáil -Bill will be introduced next Thursday The Green Party has welcomed the news that the Civil Partnership Bill is to be introduced to the Dáil next week. [...]
The Green Party have confirmed that the Civil Partnership Bill will be brought before the Dáil on Thursday December 3rd. I’ll confirm the time as soon as I can and have details of online coverage. No doubt the announcements of the pickets etc. will also follow.
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Overheard from the Equality and Rights Alliance Conference yesterday which I couldn’t attend – from one of the speakers Niall Crowley. It pretty much sums up this week, month and year for me. No Equality, Attack the public services, Mend the banks, Annihilate the community sector (PS: Outside the Box on RTE Radio 1 covered [...]
If you are a regular reader you know the drill by now – The Donegal News arrives in the house and I get bits read out to me and eventually I go ‘WHAT?!’ This weeks ‘gem’ in the court reports is on page 30 of last Friday’s edition. Footage of street row ‘disappeared ‘ from [...]
Tags:Donegal News·Garda Síochána·Gardai·Letterkenny·Mobile phone·Public order crime
The emails and letters to Oireachtas members in advance of the debate on the Civil Partnership Bill continue (#cpbill) to be sent my way. Renew as you may remember is the new ‘national’ organisation campaigning for lots of ‘down with that sort of thing’ vigour. It would seem however that many of their emails landed [...]
According to today’s Observer, the European Commission has told the UK Government that it must change a new Equality Law as the exemption proposed for Religious bodies contravenes ‘an EU directive prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of a person’s sexual orientation.’ The law allowed religious groups to discriminate against gay employees “so as to avoid conflicting [...]
Tags:#cpbill·Directive·Discrimination·European Commission·European Union·Religion·Sexual orientation
Tonight watching X Factor and reading my twitter stream I saw a few too many jokes about Susan Boyle’s mental health and intellectual disability. Some people seem to have found other people’s jokes funny too and retweeted them. Colm O’ Gorman, (Bio: Author, activist, director of Amnesty International Ireland) for one. And people wonder why [...]
Tags:Activism·Amnesty International·Human Rights and Liberties·Mental Health·Susan Boyle
Catching up on Civil Partnership related news… Confirmed in a question to An Taoiseach on Tuesday by Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party. Note the dig by Dermot Ahern. Deputy Eamon Gilmore: Does the Taoiseach have an update on when the civil partnership Bill will be before the House? The Taoiseach: Hopefully, the first [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·First Minister and Deputy First Minister·Government of Ireland·Minister for Social and Family Affairs·Republic of Ireland
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