The child is the most vulnerable of citizens. Adults have a responsibility to raise them with due care and attention to their needs. Our rights as adults must be secondary to children’s.

Contrary to what Margaret Hickey says, neither the EU nor the UN has ever stated that “every child should be raised by their own father and mother, where possible”. 

The Consitutional clause on the Irish family should include same-sex married couples, writes Fergus Finlay.