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    Unclaimed Future

    Claiming Our Future was ‘waked’ on 10th December in Tailors Hall in Dublin. There was a good attendance, some sadness, and, as ever, a bit of deliberation. It was felt the deceased had had a good life and that longevity was never the appropriate ambition for such a creation. It had a potential that was […]

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    Legal Change

    Organisations that support victims of domestic violence have been calling for many years for legal reforms to offer greater protection for victims. Victims of domestic violence who are not cohabiting, or do not have a child in common with an abusive partner, are not eligible to apply for court safety orders. Even where they are […]

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    An Offence Against The State

    On 1 December 1972 a car bomb exploded beside Liberty Hall in Dublin. Fortunately no one died but George Bradshaw, a CIE bus driver, and Thomas Duffy, a bus conductor, perished in a second explosion at Sackville Place. No one has ever been charged with these crimes. The UVF belatedly claimed sole responsibility for them […]

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    Poverty shapes abortion

    A woman in poverty is damned from two perspectives when it comes to pregnancy. She can’t afford to continue a pregnancy but she can’t afford to stop it either. Constitutional reform; investing in women; trusting women; reversing austerity; treating all mothers equally; addressing poverty, low pay and childcare and all the other social and economic […]

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