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...such as the Catholic Church in order to teach study group participants about the theological arguments for and against abortion. The church has made some of the most powerful (and popular) arguments against reproductive freedoms. And yet, one of the most Catholic countries in the world, the Republic of Ireland just voted last week not to restrict abortions further in that country...
Voters in the Republic of Ireland rejected a government proposal to tighten the country's strict abortion laws. The proposed change to the constitution would have ruled out the threat of suicide as legal grounds for a termination of pregnancy. Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said he was disappointed with the result, which was carried by less than...
...play is a satire partly based on the life of the Irish politician Charles Haughey - nicknamed by his people the Boss. Formerly the leader of the Fianna Fáil party and Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Haughey saw his career collapse amid a series of allegations, both extramarital and economic (he was accused of illicitly amassing a vast fortune while publicly advocating belt-tightening). In 1970 he was even accused, though acquitted, of gun-running...
...page of the Sunday Independent, while daytime TV and radio was full of Hinterland talk. Press comments - the Sunday Times (not a reviewer) called Hinterland "feeble, puerile, trite, dissociated, shallow, exploitative and gratuitously offensive" - might also make the Irish Arts Council reluctant to extend more funding to the Abbey, Ireland's national theater...
Although never a refugee herself, Bangladeshi-born Khan knows the experience of being uprooted from a war-torn homeland. She first left home to attend high school in Ireland, a move she calls ironic since she left civil war in Bangladesh only to find herself in another strife-riven nation. After university in the U.K. - where she met her German-born economist husband - she studied law at Harvard. It was there that she developed an interest in human-rights issues. She has since spent her entire career in the field - until now at the U.N. refugee agency. Her Amnesty term...