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Media misleads public

The Irish Times

Media misleads public

Two days after the murders, and despite the police explanation of his sex, both RTE and The Irish Independent were still using female pronouns for “an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues” who killed his mother, brother and six others and injured 25 others before turning the gun on himself.

The ICCL has left the building

The ICCL has left the building

This morning we learnt the Department of Education has confirmed that there's no obligation on schools to use preferred pronouns as stated in the ICCL guide.

Our legislators enabled sex deception by men

Equality legislation

Our legislators enabled sex deception by men

Unbelievably, the submission by the Equality Authority (now part of IHREC, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission) believed that the demands of some men to be legally recognised as the opposite sex should be extended to permit them access to women's changing rooms and toilets.

How many mothers work through economic necessity?

Constitution of Ireland

How many mothers work through economic necessity?

The late Mr Justice Brian Walsh believed Art 41.2 should be retained "because it imposes an obligation on the State to do something in this particular area. There's no point in relieving the State of an obligation which the Constitution imposes on it."

It's not kind to undermine safeguarding

It's not kind to undermine safeguarding

Colette Colfer's courageous stance in objecting to the South East Technological University's new gender identity and expression policy was reported in The Irish Times on Thursday of last week: Lecturer objects to university’s gender identity policy which describes refusal to use pronouns as ‘unlawful’South

Should men be in a women's prison?

Sex based rights of women and girls

Should men be in a women's prison?

Including two male sex offenders in a women’s prison is abusive of the rights not just of women prisoners but of women prison officers who have been threatened with rape. Will the new prison for women in Limerick be for women only?

Why is no one asking why gender ideology is harming twice as many girls?

Why is no one asking why gender ideology is harming twice as many girls?

Why is "gender dysphoria" now featuring so much in young girls when the 2014 retrospective study in St. Columcille's Hospital found in adults it was 73% men? Has the HSE asked this question? If not, why not? Is the NWCI concerned?

The Left becomes the Far Righteous

The Left becomes the Far Righteous

This article has been amended 28th August to include a more appropriate rebuttal of the allegation levelled against the Iona Institute* and updates at the end. Earlier this week some of the media reported on the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) formed in 2020 which published a report

Both sides of the story

Freedom of expression

Both sides of the story

Since the last of the Liveline debates a week ago The Irish Times has run no less than nine articles on this contentious issue, not one of which provided any balance by seeking out the opinions of women who called the programme.

Quality journalism

Freedom of expression

Quality journalism

"We do not go to publication without seeking both sides of the story" says the editor of The Irish Times, Paul O'Neill. Here is the coverage by the paper in one week since the Liveline programmes prompted by women's concerns over the erasure of our name "woman" from legislation.