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Monday 26 May
Rock Star Courtney Love
Resisted Coerced Abortion,
Reports Memoir
Lifesite News - - Michael Baggot
Monday 26 May
'Log Instances of Pro-Yes bias in Media'
Politics.ie tracks the media bias
in favour of a yes vote in upcoming
Lisbon referendum
Politics.ie - Lisbon Treaty - arnold lane
Sunday 25 May
Catholic News Agency headline:
'German radio documentary
says exorcisms are being outsourced' !
CNA News - -
Thursday 22 May
Report on changing
parish organization
in Ireland
RTÉ One - Morning Ireland - Cathal MacGiolla
Tuesday 20 May
Fr Bryan McKevitt
of ALIVE responds to
Enda Kenny's criticism
of the Catholic newspaper
RTÉ One - Morning Ireland - Cathal MacGiolla
'Kenny calls for clarification by Catholic Church'
- STEPHEN ERRITY - The Irish Times 20/5/2008
Demands for Church's Lisbon verdict could be Providential
Monday 19 May
'Gates of hell
grinding down on the Church' -
Enda Kenny tries to muzzle Alive
for its NO-to-Lisbon stand
Newstalk - Late night Live - Declan Carty
Monday 19 May
U.S. Supreme Court upholds law against
child pornography
(but 2 of the 9 justices vote against !)
Christian Newswire - - Concerned Women for America
Monday 19 May
Irish secular media
focus in on internet bullying
RTÉ One - Prime Time Investigates - Miriam O'Callaghan
'One-in-five girls victim of internet bullying' -
Irish Independent FRONT PAGE 19/5/2008
'One-in-five girls victim of internet bullying' -
FULL ARTICLE by Louise Hogan
Irish Independent 19/5/2008
'Video Nasties' - Irish Independent Editorial 19/5/2008
Cyber Bullying - Questions and Answers 19/5/2008
Monday 19 May
Programme contributor claims biblical support
for assisted suicide but unable to cite any references !!!
Newstalk - Your Call - Brenda Power
Friday 16 May
What does Brian Cowen
think about religion?
The Irish Independent - Opinion - David Quinn
Friday 16 May
Reuters and Irish Times report:
'Pope repeats opposition to gay marriage'
The Irish Times - News - Reuters
Pope links Peace to wellbeing of family based on marriage - 1 Jan 2008
Thursday 15 May
'And God created aliens' -
Vatican Chief Astronomer,
Fr Gabriel Funes
considers possibility of intelligent
extraterrestrial life
The Irish Independent - World News -
'Vatican says aliens could exist' - BBC - David Wiley 13/5/2008
Thursday 15 May
"In the mid 1990s too it was our
churches which were among the
first to alert wider society to the
plight of asylum seekers arriving here.
They helped ensure, as Imam Hussein Halawa
of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Dublin
observed in the series yesterday,
that whereas ?elsewhere they were
put in camps. Here they got education
opportunities?. In all of this our
traditional mainstream churches
have given contemporary expression
to the great humanising role religion
can play in society."
The Irish Times - Editorial -
Thursday 15 May
Praise for religious leaders
in Irish Times Editorial -
"The great humanising role
religion can play in society"
- and -
Vatican Chief Astronomer
speaks of possibility of intelligent life
outside Earth
(Irish Independent)
(3 minutes into broadcast)
RTÉ One - What It says in the Papers - Evelyn O'Rourke
Wednesday 14 May
Government publishes new
Broadcasting Bill
Government - DCMNR - Eamonn Ryan
Government Press Release
Saturday 3 May
John Collins, speaking about the new
version of the video game, Grand Theft Auto
suggests that concern about the game in the U.S.
is rooted in conservative attitudes -
Two texts were read out on air
pointing to the scientific consensus
about the link between exposure to on-screen
violence and subsequent violent behaviour
Newstalk - Culture Shock - Fionn Davenport
Friday 2 May
A Catholic Priest
has died following an attack
earlier today in Mexico city
M&C - News - M&C
Friday 2 May
Kilkenny Gospel Choir
featured on today's show -
Issue of death by cancer of one of
the group's founder members
is discussed
(1 hr 17 min into broadcast)
RTÉ Radio One - Today - Pat Kenny
Friday 2 May
Superficial discussion about
sexual addiction?
If you get caught you're an addict;
if you don't get caught, you're not an addict!
Newstalk - Lunchtime - Eamonn Keane
Friday 2 May
Argentinian rugby international,
Felipe Contepomi
praises Irish Christian Brothers
for the "great, great job"
they do in Argentina
(40 mins into broadcast)
RTÉ Radio One - The Tubridy Show - Ryan Tubridy
Friday 2 May
Discussion about Irish attitudes to nudity -
John Kelleher (the Irish Film Censor)
thinks nudist sunbathing
"is reasonably ok"
(12 mins into broadcast)
RTÉ Radio One - The Tubridy Show - Ryan Tubridy
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