Dubhaltach O Reachtnin, Author at Catholic Herald

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Irish Establishment’s denigration of Christian heritage receives first rebuttal through overwhelming referendum defeat

March 13, 2024

“The Irish bishops can still win an election.” A friend of mine said this to me as the results of the two Irish referendums on the Family Amendment and the Care Amendment to the Irish Constitution started to filter through – indicating a dual defeat for the Irish government. My friend was speaking somewhat in

Ireland’s 8 March Referendums: Does Irish government now wish it had kept its constitutional nose out of the Family?

March 07, 2024

The upcoming dual referendum in Ireland has begun to turn into a quagmire that the government may wish it had never embarked upon. Although polling shows that voters are tending towards Yes in both votes, known locally as the “Family and Care” amendments, the gap has narrowed as the vote approaches on March 8. The intervention of the

Sinn Fein gains more power: are Christian values in Ireland under threat?

February 06, 2024

As devolved government returns to Northern Ireland for the first time in two years, a Sinn Fein leader takes the position of First Minister of Northern Ireland on the back of becoming the largest party in the Northern Irish Assembly in the 2022 elections. With a Nationalist party now holding the most seats in Northern

Irish Medical Council endorses ‘fundamental shift’ in medical ethics paving way for government euthanasia push

January 10, 2024

The Irish Medical Council has updated its ethical guidelines for doctors. The standout change—and a disturbing change, especially given the supposedly ethical focus—is the removal of the very explicit direction: “You must not take part in the deliberate killing of a patient.” The amendment to the 2024 Guide to Professional Conduct & Ethics for Registered

The battle for Ireland’s Catholic soul will not slacken in 2024

January 02, 2024

Literary critic Harold Bloom said that all poets must confront their precursors in a type of “Oedipal struggle in order to create an imaginative space for themselves”. He felt that those who came late to the scene of cultural upheaval go through a process of “misreading” their predecessors. It appears as if progressive Ireland

Has Ireland’s abortion clamour contributed to another mismanaged sepsis death?

December 16, 2023

An Irish teenager died in University Hospital Limerick due to delays in recognising and treating sepsis, The Sunday Independent reported on 10 December after a review into her treatment and care following reports she spent a significant time on a hospital trolley. Aoife Johnston was 16 when she died on 19 December last year. The

N. Irish Catholic schools fight back as pressure mounts to adopt secular ideologies

November 20, 2023

Just as the Scottish Bishops’ Conference has robustly engaged the Department of Education in Scotland on the removal of protections for Catholic denominational education, the Catholic Schools’ Trustee Service has engaged in the consultative process on Relationship and Sexuality Education in Northern Ireland. Chaired by Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry, the Catholic Schools’ Trustee

Ireland votes for abortion clinic buffer zones

November 17, 2023

The Irish Lower House of Parliament has voted for the creation of buffer zones around healthcare facilities which carry out abortions. The public spaces within 100 metres of abortion providing facilities are to be free from any type of activity that may be construed as seeking to influence or interfere in any way with a

All reference to Catholic schools deleted from new Scottish sex ed guidelines as Church ‘wilfully ignored’ by government

November 13, 2023

The Scottish Government released new draft guidelines on the delivery of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education to be applied in Scottish schools. The new guidance, which is issued under section 56 of the Standards in Scotland’s Schools Act 2000, is designed to replace earlier guidance issued in 2014. A public consultation on the draft

‘Do not be Canada’: Alberta physician warns Irish of lethal flaws of assisted death

November 03, 2023

Throughout last month the Irish parliament heard from interested parties on assisted suicide, covering a wide range of issues from the constitutional and legal implications, through the ethics of autonomy and the implications of changes on healthcare professionals. The Joint Committee on Assisted Dying was formed in January initially to consider and make recommendations for

Enoch Burke case: the unanswered questions

July 27, 2023

Irish schoolteacher Enoch Burke has been ordered to pay costs to Wilson’s Hospital Secondary School after the High Court determined that the school was within its rights to put him on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary process against him. Burke was famously suspended from his post by his employer for disruptive

Thousands attend ‘Rally for Life’ in Dublin

July 04, 2023

Over 10,000 people attended the All-Ireland ‘Rally for Life‘ in Dublin on Saturday, which served as a reminder to the Irish government that support for the pro-life cause in Ireland has not gone away. Despite the vote in 2018 to remove the constitutional protection for the unborn child and impose in its place the most liberal abortion

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