Category Archives: Philosophy
Women and Quotas in Politics
Is it right to take affirmative action and to place a % quota on the amount of women that must run in an election, or is such an idea patronising to women suggesting that they cannot run for election on their own merit? This subject has been debated to and fro over the last few [...]
My debate speech on morality
This is the debate speech that I put forward at the debate on the motion “This house believes that one cannot be truly moral without God” on behalf of Maynooth Christian Union along with my co-partner. The video was uploaded on the Atheist Ireland youtube channel, but unfortunately it doesn’t contain the full speech so [...]
Christianity Week – March 30th – April 1st (NUI Maynooth)
It really has been quite a while since I’ve posted on this blog. Please accept my apology and be assured that I will be updating it much more frequently in the next few weeks? For those who mightn’t have known. I am the current Christian Union president at NUI Maynooth. We are currently organising our [...]
Free speech – How far is too far?
Following on from my previous post on the blasphemy law in Ireland, and building upon the recent events in the UK of Anjem Choudary’s now banned group Islam4UK’s threatened march through Wooton Bassett. I start to wonder how important is free speech to us in actuality? Is it only when peoples free speech doesn’t our [...]
