Even the Government\u2019s own consultative forum failed to reach a consensus on that proposal, as its chairperson formally reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yet the Irish people are being told to \u2018get real\u2019 by those to whom, as sovereign under Article 6, they delegate authority; bizarre, to say the least, in a democratic constitutional republic.<\/p>\n
Our long record of Blue Helmets, now being invoked to justify sidestepping UN authorisation, reflected a well-grounded national consensus, articulated by Frank Aiken, on disarmament, decolonisation, and UN-led peacekeeping.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This consensus also informed our imperfect but vital peace process \u2014 a patient, modest, generous project to transform rather than amplify enmity and violence, foregrounding negotiation and diplomacy.<\/p>\n
Breaking the Triple Lock would hardly help in a world which UN secretary general Antonio Guterres tells us \u201cis becoming unhinged\u201d, where \u201cwe seem incapable of coming together to respond\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 2022, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin celebrated our sovereignty by telling the UN General Assembly: \u201cWe have \u2014 in this General Assembly, and in the other bodies, institutions, and agencies that make up the United Nations \u2014 the spaces to discuss, to negotiate, to share experiences, to craft solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
He would be supported warmly and widely in making good on those words.<\/p>\n
\n John Maguire\n <\/p>\n
\n Professor of Sociology Emeritus\n <\/p>\n
\n UCC\n <\/p>\n
The Roger Casement Commemoration and Re-interment Association has formally applied to Dublin City Council and Glasnevin Cemetery to grant an exhumation licence to move the patriot\u2019s remains from Glasnevin to Murlough Bay, Co Antrim, where he spent his happiest days.<\/p>\n
Casement was captured near Banna Strand on Good Friday, April 21, 1916, and subsequently found guilty of treason by the British government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was hanged at London\u2019s Pentonville Prison on August 3, 1916.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The British refused to release his remains which were buried in an unmarked grave within the prison.<\/p>\n
On February 23, 1965, after pressure from the Irish government, Casement\u2019s remains were repatriated to Ireland and buried with full military honours at Glasnevin.<\/p>\n
Roger Casement.<\/p>\n
However, shortly before he was executed, Casement expressed a wish to be buried at his beloved Murlough Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On July 25, 1916, he wrote from prison: \u201cDon\u2019t let my body lie here. Take me back to the green hill at Murlough, by the McCarry\u2019s house, looking down on the Moyle. That\u2019s where I\u2019d like to be now \u2014 and there\u2019s where I\u2019d like to lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because of his association with Banna Strand, Kerry people consider Roger Casement to be one of their own.<\/p>\n
They have the same high regard for him as they have for other prominent Kerry patriots of the time such as The O\u2019Rahilly, Con Keating, Thomas Ashe, Austin Stack, and John Joe Sheehy.<\/p>\n
I firmly believe that Irish people will overwhelmingly support The Roger Casement Commemoration and Re-interment Association\u2019s application for an exhumation licence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After 110 years, it\u2019s high time to bring Roger Casement\u2019s remains home to Murlough Bay.<\/p>\n
\n Billy Ryle\n <\/p>\n
\n Tralee, Co Kerry\n <\/p>\n
I find myself become quite irked when I listen to commentators promoting a \u2018just loosen up\u2019 notion to Generation Z.<\/p>\n
Social historians of the distant future will surely recognise that Gen Z grew up riding the most substantial wave of technological change in recorded history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their epitaph will surely mention that they were the subjects of an experiment \u2014 a project wherein the sleepless machine of social media consumed and filled every aspect of their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And all this change amid a climate of economic precariousness, austerity, and intense globalisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But hey, just loosen up!<\/p>\n
\n John O\u2019Brien\n <\/p>\n
\n Clonmel, Co Tipperary\n <\/p>\n
We must pressurise the Government into building standardised apartment blocks on a 50x50m concrete floor slab with a lift and staircase shafts in the centre; four apartments on each floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everything standard \u2014 floor plans, windows, doors, kitchens, and bathrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All plumbing and electric standard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The key here is standardisation. It will keep costs down on social and elderly housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a no-brainer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just build the bloody thing on a mass scale in every county.<\/p>\n
\n John O\u2019Sullivan\n <\/p>\n
\n Boreenmanna Rd, Cork\n <\/p>\n
While the Government has distanced itself from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre \u2018grandparent\u2019 video, it is somewhat curious that this did not also happen at the end of September when the National Women\u2019s Council organised the lighting up of the Mansion House and Trinity College in green for International Safe Abortion Day.<\/p>\n
For many citizens, this overt celebration of abortion was incredibly disquieting.<\/p>\n
\n Catherine O\u2019Donohoe\n <\/p>\n
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