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				<title>30 Jul 10 Opponents of Civil Partnership Bill &quot;homophobes&quot;, says Gormley</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Environment Minister and Green Party chief John Gormley has attacked those who oppose the Civil Partnership Bill as homophobes who hold "old and discredited prejudices". ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:14:24 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>31 Jul 10 UN attacks stay-at-home mothers</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A key UN treaty monitoring body has has attacked the Russian Federation for promoting motherhood and women being able to stay at home with their newborn children. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:23:05 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>30 Jul 10 Waters on children's referendum</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ John Waters (pictured) has a provocative column on the proposed children's rights referendum in today's Irish Times.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:41:47 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>30 Jul 10 Court dismisses student's appeal against expulsion over Christian beliefs</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A US federal judge has thrown out an appeal against a decision by Eastern Michigan University to expel a student from a master's degree program because of her religious views against homosexual acts. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:38:16 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>29 Jul 10 UK Government may support atheist schools</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Conservative government would consider allowing atheists to set up state-funded schools Education Secretary Michael Gove has said. Mr Gove said he would be "interested" to look at ideas about setting up schools from figures such as leading atheist Professor Richard Dawkins. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:48:28 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>29 Jul 10 Areas for school handover submitted to Church by Department of Education</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Department of Education has submitted a list of more than 40 areas around the country where it wants to transfer schools from Catholic patronage to other potential patrons.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:07:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>28 Jul 10 Case shows Constitution not to blame for failure to help vulnerable children</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A new report on the death of a seven-year-old girl, Khyra Ishaq (pictured), due to months of abuse at the hands of her mother and her boyfriend Junaid suggests that social services in her home town of Birmingham could have prevented the tragedy. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:20:14 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>28 Jul 10 Delay on children's referendum likely: report </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The proposed referendum on children’s rights is set to be postponed until at least 2011, due to concerns over how the wording of an amendment to the Constitution would affect several key policies. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:08:58 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>28 Jul 10 Ireland's birthrate tops EU league</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Ireland remained top of the EU's birth league last year, new figures show. The rate of births here -- at 16.8 children born per 1,000 people -- was the the highest in the European Union. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:04:51 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>29 Jul 10 EU to host summit of atheists and Freemasons</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The EU is set to hold a summit with atheists and freemasons in Brussels in October, inviting them to a political dialogue parallel to the annual summit the bloc holds with Europe's religious leaders. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:58:56 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>28 Jul 10 Americans trust religion more than President and media, poll finds</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Americans trust their churches more than the Presidency, Congress, the Supreme Court or the media, according to a new Gallup poll.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:08:24 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>27 Jul 10 Change your faith, or no degree, student told</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ An American Christian student has been told will not be permitted to graduate unless she changes her beliefs. Jennifer Keeton, 24, is studying for a degree in counselling at Augusta State University in Georgia. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:39:42 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>27 Jul 10 Families set for double tax blow, says Ahern</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Families are set for a double blow in the next Budget, as the Government contemplate both a property tax and water charges next year after a senior Government minister put both firmly back on the table on Sunday. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:36:26 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>24 Jul 10 Christians have &quot;had enough&quot; of marginalisation, says MP</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Christians have had enough of being treated as second class citizens, a Conservative MP has said during a Parliamentary debate. The stark warning from Steve Baker, MP for Wycombe, is likely to be welcomed by many Christians who feel that their faith is often marginalised in the public sphere. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:10:29 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>25 Jul 10 Barnardos' confusing approach to the HSE and children's rights</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ On Thursday, Norah Gibbons, Director of Advocacy for children's group Barnardos described the HSE as not fit for the purpose of looking after children's welfare. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:02:34 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>23 Jul 10 HSE &quot;not fit&quot; to care for vulnerable children</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Health Service Executive (HSE) is “not fit for purpose” when it comes to looking after the welfare of children in care, an expert on the subject has claimed. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:52:05 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>23 Jul 10 Twenty European countries join Italy in appeal against ECHR “crucifix” ruling</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Twenty European countries have now joined the Italian appeal against a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (pictured) regarding the display of crucifixes in public places, it has emerged. The group does not include Ireland. The number of states supporting Italy has been described as “a major political victory” by a leading group in the campaign for religious freedom. However, the Irish Government did not associate its voice with this campaign. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:19:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>23 Jul 10 The USSR, Irish politics and the Constitution </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ At the McGill summer school this week, Justice Adrian Hardiman made a very interesting and telling comparison between certain legal practices in the old Soviet Union and the impatience of certain groups in Ireland with the Constitution. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:21:06 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>22 Jul 10 Justice Adrian Hardiman defends Constitution against critics</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A leading Supreme Court Judge has defended the Constitution from critics who have claimed it is too old and too complicated. Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman (pictured), speaking yesterday at the McGill Summer School, said that the fact that the Constitution was 73 years old and of a certain length should not be drawbacks.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:05:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>22 Jul 10 Recession behind fall in numbers seeking divorce, say lawyers</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ There has been a fall of almost 15 per cent in the number of people seeking judicial separations or divorce, resulting in the lowest number of applications for a decade. According to the annual report of the Courts Services for 2009, there were 5,398 applications for judicial separation, divorce or nullity last year, compared with 6,236 the previous year. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:51:31 +0100</pubDate>
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