We were deeply saddened to hear the news about Savita Halappanavar – a woman who died after being denied a life-saving abortion in Ireland. There are too many stories like Savita’s out there and many countries – other than Ireland – where abortion remains illegal.
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THE GUARDIAN: Irish judge orders rape victim arrested and imprisoned for refusing to testify against her alleged attackers.
Jesus H. Christ.
ICH BIN EIN DUBLINER Dubliners, some of whom had been waiting hours, raise their arms as the Obamas arrive in Ireland yesterday. “There is no one,” the President declared, “more Irish than me.” (Photo: AFP-Getty via the Daily Mail)
“THERE IS NO ONE MORE IRISH THAN ME” President Barack Obama drinks a pint of Guinness stout at the Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland. Obama sipped beer and cuddled babies on Monday as the tiny Irish village welcomed home “a long-lost cousin” with an outpouring of affection. (Photo: Reuters via the Daily Mail)
SPEAK SOFTLY… President Barack Obama jokingly swung a hurley, a stick used in the sport of hurling, as Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny looked on in Dublin Monday. Mr. Obama, whose great-great-great-grandfather on his mother’s side is Irish, is on a four-nation European tour. (Photo: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)
Cam Cardow / The Ottawa Citizen
Bono writing in the New York Times on PM Cameron's apology for the killings on Bloody Sunday: "If there are any lessons for the world from this piece of Irish history ... for Baghdad ... for Kandahar ... it’s this: things are quick to change for the worse and slow to change for the better, but they can. They really can. It takes years of false starts, heartbreaks and backslides and, most tragically, more killings. But visionaries and risk-takers and, let’s just say it, heroes on all sides can bring us back to the point where change becomes not only possible again, but inevitable."
The Irish Examiner, Friday, 20 November 2009
