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Mary Kenny: The vocation that’s safe from robots
May 25, 2017
What hope for jobs in the future? Which professions are likely to survive an era when robots and artificial intelligence will be taking over so many tasks? The jobs of doctors, accountants, some engineers and even teachers are under threat from robotisation. Robots will diagnose your maladies. Robots will do your accounts. Robots will measure,
Mary Kenny: What the NHS can learn from Ireland’s recovery
May 18, 2017
I once asked a free-market economist how he would analyse the Irish famine, which is sometimes seen as an example of too much free trade: while people starved, ship-loads of food were leaving Ireland weekly. “The lesson of the Irish famine is,” quoth he, “never be over-dependent on one crop, or one source.” The single
Mary Kenny: Ireland’s vanishing blasphemy law
May 11, 2017
Ireland has been criticised – even condemned – once again because the performer and writer Stephen Fry has been accused of blasphemy, under the country’s 2009 Blasphemy Act. When Mr Fry appeared on RTÉ Television, in 2015, the interviewer Gay Byrne asked him what he would say if, after death, he encountered God. Fry then
Mary Kenny: Squabbling? Try divorce Irish-style
May 04, 2017
As Brexit is constantly compared to the process of divorce, how about suggesting a parallel with what used to be known as “divorce Irish-style”? Divorce was prohibited in the Irish Republic between 1923 and 1995, and only barely scraped through a majority vote on a third referendum. It’s common to blame this distaste for divorce
Mary Kenny: An absurd crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses
April 27, 2017
It could be said that there is not a lot of common ground between the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Catholic Church. The Watchtower, the JW’s publication, is seldom complimentary about Catholic doctrine, and telling the Jehovah’s Witness person who knocks at your door “I’m a Roman Catholic” is often enough to put them right off
Mary Kenny: Harry’s bravery and the rites of mourning
April 20, 2017
Prince Harry has been admirable in disclosing his feelings about the loss of his mother at the age of 12, and how that grief affected him 20 years down the line. The loss of a parent on the cusp of, or during, adolescence can be devastating and can indeed have long-term affects. When I was
Mary Kenny: Let’s raise statues to Christian feminists
April 13, 2017
The decision to raise a statue to Dame Millicent Fawcett, the campaigner for votes for women, in London’s Parliament Square (where there are 11 statues of men) is not just a victory for feminism: it’s also a recognition of the achievements of change through constitutional and peaceful means. The more flamboyant lives of the Suffragettes
Mary Kenny: The unlikely rise of the pro-life movie
April 06, 2017
Ideas are often much more powerfully transmitted through stories, culture and narratives of personal experience than through facts or polemics. And while “abortion rights” have become established in law in most countries (and defended by the majority of the political class), it’s fascinating to note that movies and television dramas are often surreptitiously pro-life. Bridget
Mary Kenny: The unsettling moral of two funerals
March 30, 2017
Two recent Irish funerals observed: the first was that of Cardinal Desmond Connell, Archbishop of Dublin, and the first Dubliner to be given a cardinal’s hat for 120 years. He was a doctor of philosophy and a professor of metaphysics, and died in February, aged 90. Dr Connell was a conservative on doctrinal matters and
Mary Kenny: Why I’ll be belting out Vera Lynn
March 23, 2017
How cheering to see the white cliffs of Dover lit up with the image of Dame Vera Lynn, to mark her 100th birthday. In her honour, I went and bought her “new” CD, Vera Lynn 100, just issued by Decca at £9.99. She is the first artiste ever to have a CD issued on her
Mary Kenny: Ireland hits peak anti-Catholicism
March 16, 2017
Ireland has been in a state of turmoil following the discovery of nearly 800 infant remains in a mass grave at Tuam, County Galway. The babies – aged from 35 foetal weeks to two to three years – died between 1925 and 1961, mostly, it is suggested, from infectious diseases or malnutrition. The site was
Mary Kenny: Sex education and the city
March 09, 2017
There’s nothing wrong with sex education, even for quite young children, as is now being proposed. It’s understandable that we don’t want to invade their innocence, but they’re going out into a world where they need to be informed and forewarned. Children who grew up on farms were introduced to what was called “the facts
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