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Conferences and reports: De facto couples, gay partnerships, family diversity, “Christian” fanatics = Fun times

[Originally posted at Potatriotique]
Friday, 26th May 2006, saw the culmination of a number of public events this month broadly dealing with various aspects of family diversity, that is to say, families outside the traditional mammy-daddy-2point4-children marital unit.
After the recent launch and speech in April by our Bertie at the GLEN offices, the month of Mary [...]

The Kids are Alright! Drink, Drugs, Sex and Bebo

The census of 1996 revealed that 41% of the Irish population are aged under 25. This fact should make “young people” the single most powerful voting bloc in the country. This is not the case.A survey by the National Youth Council found that in recent years, voter participation among young people was just 38%. The [...]

A Civic, Social and Political Experiment

The upcoming General Election in Ireland will be the first to potentially feel the effects of the CSPE (Civic, Social and Political education) subject which was introduced to the Junior Certificate course in 2000. The first year to study this for examination were generally too young to vote in the 2002 elections; some missing the [...]

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