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3 days ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
I am as apprehensive of Artificial Intelligence as the next person, and the notion of robots governing so much of our lives is worrying. How many jobs will be lost when AI does everything from accountancy to keyhole surgery? Will authors and writers lose control of their own texts once AI can compose words as…
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3 days ago | 
independent.ie | Mary Kenny
Mary Kenny: By-election breakthrough would be a huge step on Nigel Farage’s ascension to Downing StreetReform UK made sweeping gains in last year’s local elections, but winning a seat in Scotland today would be a game-changerReform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks to the media in Aberdeen, Scotland. Photo: Peter SummersNigel Farage, whose Reform UK party faces a significant by-election in Scotland today, has recently embraced “family values”.
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1 week ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
One of Pope Francis’s critiques of modern society was that too many people prefer to have animal pets rather than children. In 2014, he described this trend as “selfish”, and returned to the theme in 2022, when he called it “a denial of fatherhood and motherhood” that “takes away our humanity”. Well, the pattern has continued. Reports say that among ‘Generation Z’ – those currently aged between 12 and 28 – a significant number would prefer to have pets than children.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
Well before the same-sex marriage referendum in Ireland– currently celebrating its tenth anniversary – I think I sensed that attitudes were changing. Back in the 1990s, after Mary Robinson held a soirée in Áras an Uachtaráin for gay citizens, I had a conversation with an entirely conventional Irish Catholic grandmother, who would then have been…
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Mary Kenny
Figures like David Attenborough, Mick Jagger and Rupert Murdoch make it easy to imagine that age and frailty can be defeatedAs an oldie myself, I didn’t think Joe Biden should have run for a second term as president at the age of 81. There are jobs people in their 80s can do effectively – a High Court judge or pope, for example. However, being the leader of the free world is too onerous for any octogenarian.
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2 weeks ago | 
tolerance.ca | Mary Kenny
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2 weeks ago | 
theconversation.com | Mary Kenny
Australia’s policy towards refugees and asylum seekers stands at a critical juncture. Global displacement is at record highs and many countries are retreating from their responsibilities. At this moment, Australia can lead by example. As Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said on election night:We do not need to beg or borrow or copy from anywhere else. We do not need to seek our inspiration overseas. We find it right here in our values – and in our people.
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2 weeks ago | 
weekendtimes.com.au | Mary Kenny
Australia’s policy towards refugees and asylum seekers stands at a critical juncture. Global displacement is at record highs and many countries are retreating from their responsibilities[1]. At this moment, Australia can lead by example. As Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said[2] on election night:We do not need to beg or borrow or copy from anywhere else. We do not need to seek our inspiration overseas. We find it right here in our values – and in our people.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishcatholic.com | Mary Kenny
Last weekend, in the small, picturesque seaside town of St Agnes in Cornwall, a plaque was unveiled to the hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers in England and Wales who had been subjected, in the past, to forced adoptions. The plaque is situated at Rosemundy, which was once a mother-and-baby home in the West of…
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Mary Kenny
My husband’s death plunged me into terrifying psychosis. But it was the cocktail of drugs doctors dosed me with that almost cost me my sons. The first indication that something was wrong came when I turned on my phone at lunchtime, after a three-hour work meeting, to find six missed calls from numbers I didn’t recognise. A small sense of alarm stirred inside as I rang one of the numbers back. The secretary from my younger son’s school answered and said that he hadn’t been collected at pick-up.
