Short reports and links, including – Poll shows strong support for same-sex marriage; Carlow farmers in fatal shooting incident to be given joint wake; TCD study – 72 per cent of homeless women experience violence or abuse as children
Poll shows strong support for same-sex marriage
TheJournal.ie – A recent poll reveals a 73 per cent support for allowing same-sex marriage in the Constitution.
http://www.thejournal.ie/poll-shows-strong-support-for-same-sex-marriage-363584-Feb2012/
Seanad “should reflect in silence before daily prayer”
TheJournal.ie – A proposal on introducing 30 seconds of silence before the daily prayer was reached by compromise between Senators Ivana Bacik and Ronan Mullen.
http://www.thejournal.ie/seanad-should-reflect-in-silence-before-daily-prayer-363621-Feb2012/
Call to protect Roman Catholic schools
Belfast Telegraph – “Ireland needs plurality of provision of schools,” said the Archbishop of Dublin in a lecture on the reform of the Catholic Church. “But the rights of those Irish citizens who wish their children to receive Catholic education can only be respected by fostering …
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/call-to-protect-catholic-schools-16121751.html
Irish Times – He was speaking at the Mater Dei Institute’s Spring Lecture Series 2012 on the topic “Reform in the Catholic Church in Ireland: Facing the Future with Hope”. “There is a strong move to reduce the number of schools under church control, yet at the same …
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0224/1224312309315.html
University to unveil £250m plans
BBC – The University of Ulster buys a large swathe of land in Belfast to house its new £250m campus.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17142490
More NI cancer patients survive
BBC – People in Northern Ireland have a greater chance of recovering from cancer than sufferers in some other parts of the UK, according to researchers at Queen’s University.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17149760
New figures show falling circulation for most Irish daily newspapers
TheJournal.ie – ABC figures show the Sunday World as the highest-selling paper in Ireland, marginally ahead of the Sunday Independent.
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/new-figures-show-falling-circulation-for-most-irish-daily-newspapers-363705-Feb2012/
Parish left numb as prayers are said for wife and sister
Irish Independent – By Eimear Ni Bhraonain : Members of the Catholic Church and Church of Ireland communities were shattered last night as they said prayers for Hilda after the brutal death of her brother, George Rothwell, and husband, Michael Jordan. In Ballinkillen Church …
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/parish-left-numb-as-prayers-are-said-for-wife-and-sister-3029086.html
Man shoots his brother-in-law and then takes his own life
Irish Independent – Bachelor Mr Rothwell, an award-winning cattle breeder and well-known local musician, was a member of the Church of Ireland, while Mr Jordan was Catholic. A scheduled Ash Wednesday service became an impromptu prayer meeting to mourn the …
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/man-shoots-his-brotherinlaw-and-then-takes-his-own-life-3029090.html
Farming friends torn apart by deep rift over family land
Irish Independent – Locals said that Fred was a staunch Church of Ireland man who would not have approved of Hilda marrying a Roman Catholic. Hilda, who was a few years older than Michael, did not marry him until after her father had died some years later, when he was in …
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/farming-friends-torn-apart-by-deep-rift-over-family-land-3029173.html
Carlow farmers in fatal shooting incident to be given joint wake
Irish Times – The two farmers who died in Co Carlow will be given a joint wake today in their native Bagenalstown.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0224/1224312311424.html
72 per cent of homeless women experience violence or abuse as children
TheJournal.ie – In a TCD study, 15 women had spent time in a psychiatric hospital and 11 had spent time in prison. A large number of migrant women reported experiencing intimate partner violence.
http://www.thejournal.ie/72-per-cent-of-homeless-women-experience-violence-or-abuse-as-children-363704-Feb2012/
Irish Govt to commit outstanding €1.5m of Haiti aid ‘in coming months’
TheJournal.ie – Minister of State Joe Costello says Ireland has paid €11.5 million of the €13 million pledged at the 2010 donor conference.
http://www.thejournal.ie/govt-to-commit-outstanding-e1-5m-of-haiti-aid-in-coming-months-364472-Feb2012/