Posted on 05/04/2026 4:16:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Several thousand people have taken part in the annual “March for Life” event in Dublin city center.
The demonstration gathered on St. Stephen’s Green before marching to Molesworth Street.
The crowd heard speeches from speakers including Independent Ireland TD Ken O’Flynn, Aontú councillor Ellen Troy and Pro Life Campaign spokesperson Caroline Simons.
Organizers say the focus of this year’s march is on Ireland’s abortion numbers.
According to the most recent figures from the Department of Health, 10,852 abortions were carried out in Ireland in 2024.
Campaigners say they are alarmed at the rising figures and want alternative “life affirming” supports made available to women. …
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Well, Ireland did go downhill fast soon after they legalized abortin
Always a bad idea.
Very catholic of them. I could live there but where? I’m into Guinnes and redheads.
They did not legalize abortion in the name of Catholicism
You miss my point
They ruined away from their faith. All hell broke loose soon after. Could be related
They ate the soup for Globalism.
I have not touched Guinness since they boycotted the St. Patrick’s Day parades on behalf of the sodomites back in 2014.
There are better stouts anyhow. Even some US-brewed ones are superior to Guinness; the last stout I drank was from Breckenridge Brewery.
They were on the slippery slope when they legalized homosexual “marriage” four years before abortion.
Well, there ya go.
“Well, Ireland did go downhill fast soon after they legalized abortion.”
Au contraire, Ireland was a third-world s-—hole back when the Church and Fianna Fáil reigned supreme. It was the Albania of Western Europe.
If you want to learn about modern Ireland, read Fintan O’Toole’s “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958.”
It was the Albania of Western Europe.
Whoever called it that, obviously never went to Albania.
Ireland was not a s$$hole
It was the most inviting, lovely, Christian, friendly place. I’ve spent months there
In 1960, US GDP per capita was $3,014, Britain’s was $1,392, France $1,325, West Germany, $1,512.
Ireland’s was $708.
Thanks to its WW2 neutrality, Ireland missed out on the Marshall Plan and its attendant modernization.
In 1961, 75% of rural households had no indoor plumbing. In the 1950s, FIFTEEN PERCENT of the population emigrated.
Prime Minister Charles Haughey (who was a close friend of the Primate of Ireland) spent thousands of pounds PER WEEK on his mistress with government funds. The Church and Fianna Fáil scratched each other’s back and each went about its corrupt ways with impunity.
So, yes, it was a dump.
I toured Ireland from Dublin to Limerick in 1969 in a chauffeur-driven Austin Vanden Plas. The countryside was beautiful and the people were friendly. Dublin was the filthiest city I’ve ever visited and I’ve traveled a lot. I remember that we stayed in the nicest hotel in Dublin, the Shelbourne, and it was dingy, dirty, and depressing.
“So, yes, it was a dump.”
In what way? Were the people needy? Diseased? What?
“ filthiest city I’ve ever visited and I’ve traveled a lot. I remember that we stayed in the nicest hotel in Dublin, the Shelbourne, and it was dingy, dirty, and depressing.”
Hmm. Im from NYC. Been to Chicago, Dallas Houston, etc
Paris, London, Berlin, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Geneva, Rome most cities in Italy, other places I never talk about and Dublin
Spent months in Dublin
I don’t remember it being dirty. I do remember the people in Dublin and all the Irish cities and towns in Ireland being the kindest of anywhere.
People always wanted to go to Ireland to golf, retire, fish
My friends frequented Ireland the always stayed at the shelbourne. No complaints. It looked charming from the outside. I stayed near at a B&B on st Stephen’s green. It was charming.
Maybe had the English not tried to exterminate the Irish via famine, Ireland might have been better off.
I think a lot depends on when you went.
The boom years of Ireland were from 1995-2007, when it became known as the Celtic Tiger. Lots of US companies, especially pharmaceuticals, set up operations there. The 2008 Financial Crisis hit Ireland hard, but the expansionist period before it was in large part due to the growth of trade with the EU (it had previously been UK-centric), government subsidies for industry, and stability on the island following the Good Friday Accord.
“Lots of US companies, especially pharmaceuticals, set up operations there. The 2008 Financial Crisis hit Ireland hard, but the expansionist period before it was in large part due to the growth of trade with the EU (it had previously been UK-centric), government subsidies for industry, and stability on the island following the Good Friday Accord.“
The US pharmaceutical companies made Ireland great? What?
I think we’re done here.
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