I was on my way to do a spot of shopping this morning when an item on the car radio snagged my attention. Sean O’Rourke’s Today programme on RTÉ Radio 1 was playing and O’Rourke was talking to a couple of Gaelic footballers, one from Antrim and one from Donegal. They were discussing whether […]
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Selling a book and pressed for time
Picture by Giovanni Arteaga I was listening this morning to Róisín Ingle of the Irish Times on BBC Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster. She was talking to Karen Patterson about the fact – mentioned yesterday by Perkin – that she’d had an abortion. Róisín appeared to indicate that she’d become pregnant after a one-night stand and that […]
Abortion: the archbishop and the minister
Because I have the disadvantage of being a man, I can’t have children…Well no, I can and I have – four of them – but not in the way a woman has children. The experience of having another human being growing inside you must remain something of a mystery to me and other men. […]