Breaking... US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade

Huh? But the whole point is Trump got three judges on supreme court..."they have Biden and yet Roe V Wade was overturned" nothing Biden can do currently.

Thomas shouldn't be there in a million years giving his wife's actions alone.

Is he going to go after the Loving v Virginia ruling....he should at least be consistent!

In me experience my own two kids barely have a notion of Catholic dogma, my daughter who was with us an anniversary mass for a relative who died last year didn't have a clue what was going on in church and she's ten years old.

The notion that the catholic church are regrouping is odd to me because they're really taking they're time about it if they are.

They own a HUGE amount of property in this country and a lot of it is related to the education and health care systems but they're losing the control they had, they have pretty much zero social influence and any time their ownership of hospitals etc comes into popular discussion the publics disdain is emphatic.

I've got no time for the church but the notion of a regrouping rebranding smarter tougher catholic church waiting in the wings to dig their claws into Irish society isn't even remotely based in reality. It just sounds like a wacky conspiracy theory.

Equally if you think the Catholic Church is just going to sit back and let us be our best selves, then you have not been paying attention these last 1500 years.

Look at the national maternity hospital saga and tell me I'm wrong.

It’s a crude way to put it for sure, but within the context of discussion about a woman’s right to “control her body” its not an invalid point that at least some of that control is there before pregnancy occurs.

If you're talking about Paisley's disdain for the Catholic Church, then 100% .

Listen, if you think child molesters should get a pass if they have a collar but people should burn in hell for being gay, that's your business but it's no basis for a modern society.

I actually laughed at your use of "these days". Leopards and spots chief.

Look, if you want to believe that gays and divorcees are going to hell and that you're going to spend eternity strumming a golden harp on a cloud, that's fine. Imposing it on everyone else, as is official catholic policy, is not fine.

Who said I find you objectionable? Why the need to engage in ad hominem's? I did say you were coming off like a paranoid oddball, I wasn't saying you are one. I'm sure you're usually a rational person but the argument you're presenting isn't rational.

What your proposing has no basis in fact. I've no time for the church either but you're putting forward a scenario that doesn't hold up to the most basic level of scrutiny.

Of course an institution like the catholic church wants to influence as much as they can, but they have no means of expanding their influence in modern Ireland, them wishing they could expand their influence doesn't mean they're going to. I wish I could win the lotto, it doesn't mean I'll be driving a Bentley any time soon.

Private Catholic schools in the US are often of a higher standard than the public ones. No wonder so many good lawyers and judges are Catholic.

Even the President is a Catholic.

Evidence goes the other way here. They want to ban books then they should point out the bits they don't like.

Hard to defend an entire book when we don't even know the bit you are complaining about. Lol at protecting children and families though.

Articles that I've seen said they were "themed" maths books that used examples like gender pay gap, race, climate change, vaccines etc.

So instead of calculate what time two train comes from Heuston, it might be something like Dolly is paid less than Bob because she is a woman. Calculate how much less she receives for the same work.

In an Irish-language school every subject is taught through Irish. I guess in a leftist school every subject is taught through leftism. I would be interested to see what leftist geography looks like for the novelty value.

Of course DeSantis was right to step in and ban this stuff. A maths books that's about maths and not about politics will do just fine.

The public schools are paid for by taxes and not every parent wants their child turned into a politically correct fanatic snarling that women have been cheated out of money.

What a really stupid thing to say, you must live in a weird world to believe any of this tripe. You making the claim it’s being used as a form of birth control…you best back that up with some stats or evidence, because you know full well it’s not true.

Abortions are not used as a form of BC, you must have ignored the stories during the 8th of women and families who had no choice to do it based on medical issues, where it would put thr life of the women in serious danger.

But to you, you’ll brand them all as a drunk girl who got knocked up and so she should deal with the consequences.

You’ve literally no clue at all what you are talking about.