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Five children trafficked to Ireland with one person brought to Ireland for 'organ removal'

A first suspected case of a victim being trafficked for organ removal was recorded in Ireland last year, according to a new report. Five children were identified as trafficking victims, most of them for sexual exploitation, the second National ...

13 Sept 2023 at 10:06

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Home births and human rights

WOMEN’S CHOICE The popularity of home births has risen in Ireland since the pandemic. An Cailín Rua Anne-Marie Flynn The future of home births in Ireland is uncertain, following a recent recommendation by the HSE National Women and Infants ...

22 Sept 2022 at 12:33

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Turning back America’s clock

County View John Healy The US Supreme Court’s overturning of abortion rights has opened deep fissures in an already splintering society. Fifty years after Roe v Wade, the court rescinded that landmark ruling. During that half century, ...

28 Jul 2022 at 11:42

Local News

When rights get blurred

HIERARCHY OF RIGHTS When rights clash, the story of whose rights prevail is telling. De Facto Liamy MacNally We live within a hierarchy of rights. That way various issues, or rights, are prioritised. It enables smoother living in ...

22 Apr 2021 at 13:00

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Harrowing tales of Bessborough

GIVING THEM VOICE Author Deirdre Finnerty with her book, outside Tertulia bookshop at Westport Quay. Book review Brid Conroy In the eighties I spent a wonderful summer in the Channel Islands working in a hotel. It was there I met ...

19 May 2022 at 14:47

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A steadfast decrier of slavery

Second Reading Fr Kevin Hegarty The campaign, ‘Black Lives Matter’, is one of the big stories of the summer. It has led to calls for the removal of statues of political leaders who supported slavery. The statue of Daniel ...

21 Jul 2020 at 09:00

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Elder stateswoman espouses universal human rights

Mary Robinson takes on the mantle of Tutu and Annan AS a county and a country, we should be full of pride about the appointment of Iar-UachtarΡin Mary Robinson as the chairperson of The Elders, the international ...

06 Nov 2018 at 10:28

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122 people with disabilities on waiting for social housing in Mayo

Cory Kilbane New figures have revealed that at least 122 people with disabilities across Mayo are languishing on the county’s Social Housing scheme’s waiting list. Rehab, Irelands’s largest independent charity ...

15 Aug 2017 at 11:49

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Campaign to save Citizens Information Service from regionalisation

Áine Ryan THE regionalisation of Citizens Information Services (CIS) will inflict yet another nail in the coffin of rural Ireland while proposed efficiencies will not be achieved. That is the view of TomΡs ...

21 Mar 2017 at 12:30

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Direct Provision is an ‘inhumane and cruel system’

LETTER?A letter demanding an end to direct provision for asylum seekers is handed to An Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s Parliamentary Secretary Ger Deere at the Taoiseach’s Castlebar office last week.?Pic: Michael ...

14 Oct 2014 at 10:49

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INTERVIEW Rory O’Neill on taking a stand

COLOURFUL CHARACTER?Ballinrobe’s Rory O’Neill is pictured among the many outfits he wears as ‘Panti’.?Pic: Ronan Long/Irish Independent Taking a stand Ballinrobe native Rory O’Neill, aka Panti Bliss, ...

18 Feb 2014 at 12:33

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O’Neill hopes book will ‘help others’

O’Neill hopes book will ‘help others’ Ciara Galvin ACCIDENTAL gay rights activist and Ballinrobe native Rory O’Neill has said he hopes his book ‘Woman in the Making’ will help people who feel like ...

11 Nov 2014 at 12:45

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