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Updated 5.29pm
SENATOR JIM WALSH has been criticised for remarks made in the Seanad earlier where he made reference to “the abortion holocaust”.
Walsh also said the time may have come to “dismantle” RTÉ as he hit out at the national broadcaster’s “pro-abortion, pro-killing of unborn babies policy”.
Labour Senator Mairia Cahill criticised the language Walsh used saying she was disturbed and found the comments insulting.
“I find phrases like ‘abortion holocaust’ absolutely horrific. I think if people would like the respect of the Seanad they probably should behave in an adult and mature fashion which commands the respect of this house,” the recently-elected senator said in a statement this evening.
Walsh, a Fianna Fáil member who resigned from its parliamentary party last year, was speaking in the Seanad earlier today when he noted it is the 67th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
He said there had never been a time when there have been so many breaches of human rights globally.
Citing the conflict in the Middle East and the atrocities of Daesh, Walsh then referenced “the abortion holocaust”, and said:
Among those obviously, of course, is the abortion holocaust and it’s very sad that the UN itself, and indeed organisations like Amnesty and ICCL, which receive millions of foreign monies, actually spend their energies promoting the breach of the most fundamental human right of all, which is the right to life, and in particular the right I am specifically mentioning, the right to life of the unborn.
Walsh, who is well-known in political circles for his deeply conservatives views, called for a debate on the issue. The Wexford-based senator then referenced yesterday’s ruling by the BAI that an item on abortion on The Ray D’Arcy Show earlier this year had breached fairness and impartiality guidelines.
He described D’Arcy’s interview with Amnesty chief executive director as “chilling” and called for a boycott of the licence fee by people who are pro-life.
“I would ask those maybe who are of a pro-life disposition that perhaps it’s time for us to get together and refuse to pay our RTÉ licence fee,” he said.
Certainly it would not be my intention that the pro-abortion, pro-killing of unborn babies policy, which is endemic in RTÉ, be allowed continue and particularly [when] we’re funding the overpaid salaries.
“You’re talking about people who are on €400,000 and €500,000 a year for jobs which really don’t require a great deal of qualifications.”
He called for a debate on RTÉ’s “lack of fairness and impartially” and added that it may be time to abolish the national broadcaster altogether:
Maybe [the] time [has] come to dismantle the national broadcaster. We don’t need the range of radio and television stations that they are actually promoting at present at significant cost to the taxpayers who are supporting them.
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Luckily I doubt Zika could survive in our modest damp wind swept country,
Horrible situation for those in the infected areas,
Hopefully a solution can be found.
Are we at DEFCON 2 yet
Really? Do a google search on the WHO statements re Zika.
Its transmitted by the Aedes mosquitoes that have been found in parts of the uk over the past number of years.
In addition they are concerned that a batch of genetically modified mosquitoes that were released to.combat the dengue virus last year are responsible for this outbreak. The scientists working on project advised against the release as upto 4% of mosquito offspring were surviving with the new gene that was supposed to kill them. Despite their warnings the release was given the go ahead.
The epicentre is the same point as the release.
Zika does not usually cause microcephaly either and this is what is concerning them.
Nobody has a clue in other words.
In mid-2012, British biotech company Oxitec released a strain of genetically modified mosquitoes in northeastern Brazil. The Zika outbreak epicenter is in the same area where the GM mosquitoes were released
I Think i read that those GM Mosquitos were released to combat Dengue fever, apparently they were also released in Florida
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/genetically_modified_mosquito_sparks_a_controversy_in_florida/2883/
So the mosquitoes, the carriers, have been genetically modified. I wonder if we will ever be told how much experimentation and modification, genetic or otherwise, has been carried out on the virus itself.
By a company funded by the Bill Gates Foundation….that alone should sound the alarm bells.
After swine flu scaremongering, they can take a run and jump with their warnings
This one sounds deadlier though. Zika? Could be Muslim.
Another “Gift” to the world from America..
2016 Fearmongering Vaccine campaign sets off in full swing compliments of the Mainstream Media.
Yes that’s right Frank what the hell do the WHO know anyway they’re just trying to scare us with lies right? Oh right yeah no.
@ Daniel. He’s talking about disproportionate it is. I can promise you 100% for example that you or noone you know will be affected by this virus… It sensationalism.
WHO Founded on 7 April 1948 add up the date…. 7+4+1+9+4+8 = 33
Who emblem also contains 33 segments…
Why is a serpent that would represent Satan the Devil incorporated into the Who Logo?
Why has the Who Logo got two 13 leaf olive branches on an Israeli Flag Blue back drop?
Lucifer is the 13th unseen member of a twelve witch coven.
How many albums did THE WHO release?
What is your favourite song by the WHO?
People seem to be under the assumption that WHO is a benign charity with no business influence.
Anything but a charity.
They would have you micro chipped in an instant at the right opportunity.
So who declared it???
Maybe if they stop funding mad scientists to create these bloody type of things,the world would be a better place.
Dr WHO is great
Old show was good new one is terrible
Old show was terrible, new one is good.
So this means the West sees this as a threat and is now bothered to do something about it.
And? Do you think every problem in the world is the responsibility of the west to fix? This has been a peculiarly Brazilian problem up to now, they’re hardly an impoverished nation, why couldn’t they deal with it? The failures of Brazil could become the problems of the west, yet you think it is the west who should feel guilty.
It’s about to spread into the US, so it’s a global emergency now.
Microencaphaly afflicts some Irish politicians who have been over exposed to the stagnant and disease laden Irish Water.
It was isis One of the mosquitoes drop his passport
The Wildly Hysterical Organisation is at it again…
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