Creating waste to boost profits of a multi-national’s incinerator in Dublin Bay is a nightmare scenario, says Victoria White

Victorial White's article last week about the immorality of SMA sponsoring ‘pregnancy and baby’ fairs, in Cork and Dublin, drew a phenomonal response, some of it positive, some of it angry. Here she expands further on her arguments and responds to the criticism. (Comment on this story) 

ABOUT 830,000 newborn babies would be saved every year if they had just one hour at their mother’s breast before being separated from her. That’s why Save the Children call breastmilk a "super-food". It is nature’s miracle-worker, writes Victorial White.

That a premature baby was delivered by caesarian section because of concerns for the mother’s mental health has staggering implications for this society, writes Victoria White.

Come back and write another chapter, Daphne. That’s what Victoria White kept thinking as she stared in horror at the security fencing which now surrounds the Puxley Mansion outside Castletownbere. She explains why.

My column last week, urging Ireland to stand with the Palestinians, drew such a huge and often angry response that I re-read my history.

MORE than 650 Palestinians and 31 Israelis have died, so far, as a result of ‘Operation Protective Edge.’ For two weeks, each day’s news has brought fresh horrors: yesterday, 12-year-old Palestinian, Rabee Qasim, was killed by an Israeli shell as he led a donkey and cart through a Bedouin village.

THIS month we made a big step towards abolishing the idea that children need care over the age of seven. On July 3 we did away with the notion that children over 16 need care if they were receiving a One Parent Family payment before April 27, 2011.

WHATEVER the new Cabinet dredges up to present as the buried treasure for which it is worth staying in Government, I hope it’s not a second year of free preschool education.

I’VE SPENT a day reading back over Joan Burton’s speeches and I feel like Ryan Tubridy, when he begged impressionist Mario Rosenstock to stop imitating Burton: "I don’t think I can take too much more of her."