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Eighth Amendment

Weekly Comment:
Ireland’s Abortion Referendum Approaches

By Mary Gallagher, Editorial Assistant
May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Next Friday Ireland will hold a historic public referendum on the legal status of abortion in the country. The vote will determine whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which sets the value of an unborn fetus as equal to the life of its mother and has widely been interpreted by Ireland’s legal system as prohibiting abortion in all cases except those … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Ireland’s Abortion Referendum Approaches

Pro-Choice Campaign Pops Up in London

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2018

May 9, 2018 by 2 Comments

An Irish fashion designer took over a shop window in London’s high-end Selfridges’ department store to protest Ireland’s 8th Amendment, which prohibits abortion, in support of the referendum vote scheduled to take place on May 25 on whether to repeal the amendment. Richard Malone, a County Wexford native known for his eco-conscious designs and who has been written up by the … [Read more...] about Pro-Choice Campaign Pops Up in London

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Today in History

July 6, 1907

Ireland’s Crown Jewels are found missing on this day in 1907, just before days before a state visit by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. The theft remains a mystery to this day. Arthur Vicars, Officer of Arms at Dublin Castle, held the jewels in his office and publicly accused his second in command, Francis Shackleton. Shackleton was exonerated and the case was never solved. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used this historical event as the influence for his Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.”

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