Eamon gilmore autobiography of a flea
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A detailed history with photos of pro-choice struggles in Ireland from the 1980’s to 2007 and the involvement of Irish anarchist in those struggles. Includes the 1983 referendum (and those in 1986, 1992 & 1995) as well as the X-Case, the D-case and the Women on Waves ship. Written by a participant in almost all (if not all) of the events described.
Last year saw a pregnant woman carrying a foetus which could not survive. The state insisted that she carry it to term. That is what Ireland’s anti-abortion law meant for Miss “D”, a 17 year old in the care of the Health Services Executive. She was four months pregnant when her foetus was diagnosed with anencephaly.
The outlook for individuals with this is extremely poor; stillbirth or death a few hours after birth. As the Choice Ireland group said at the time “No woman should have to endure the trauma of carrying to full term a child who will not live more than a few hours. By preventing “Miss D” from travelling to Britain for an abortion the Irish government are defining women as uterine incubators rather than individuals entitled to basic human rights”.
Abortion has been illegal in Ireland since the passing of the British 1861 Offences against the Person Act. And in Holy Catholic Ireland, it was not just illegal b
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"A nice, decent gentleman" and the inventor of the Euro: Reaction to Ruairí Quinn's departure
Updated at 6pm
FIGURES FROM POLITICS, education and civil society have been reacting to the news of Ruairí Quinn’s departure from Government.
The Education Minister confirmed at midday today that he would be stepping down from Cabinet next week, after an expected reshuffle.
He also confirmed he won’t be running for a Dáil seat again.
Labour junior minister Kathleen Lynch described him as a “very easy personality to get on with”.
She spoke of his “reforming zeal” and described him as a “very complex man. A man that is from time to time misunderstood”.
Another veteran Labour politician, Minister of State Joe Costello, told RTÉ that Quinn had been “a very creative, reforming Minister”.
Costello described him as an “exceptional minister in all the portfolios that he has been in”.
He was also the “the man that gave us the Euro” Costello explained, detailing how Quinn, during his tenure as Finance Minister in the late 1990s, had “decided the name of the currency should be the Euro”.
“He proposed to his European colleagues that that should be the name of the currency,” Costello said.
He’s always a guy who puts the party first. I’m not a bit surprised that Ruair•
Desmond Greaves Gazette, Vol.16, Jan.-Oct. 1965
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