Person: Tom Carew

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Readers' Blog: Disgust at Limerick’s IRA song

I am a lifelong hurling fan, the finest game ever invented, as well as a supporter of our gardaí, and proud of my several relations who served in it, including my late father.

Readers Blog: Removal of student president not democratic

Readers Blog: Unity has been part of Spain’s stability

We should change how we elect a Taoiseach

A ‘No’ vote will unfairly place gay couples in a legally subordinate position

Immoral use of artificial insemination, surrogacy

Same-sex marriage vote is not just about equality

Correspondent Tom Carew (Irish Examiner, Letters, March 31) rightly said that freedom of expression (or of dissent) is fundamental to an open society.

Wed, 01 Apr, 2015

Equal rights are sacred, but ideas are fair game

Changing any law, or Constitution, or State policy, like an election, means an open political debate, no matter what the content.

Tue, 31 Mar, 2015

Marriage is based on a man and a woman who rear their own children

While comments from three well-known and reform-minded priests (Frs Iggy O’Donovan, Brendan Hoban and Peter McVerry) in the media about the proposed marriage referendum are clearly their own personal views, and not on behalf of any order or diocese, or the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), it certainly does the ACP or its concerns, no favours if leading figures in or sympathetic to it can be perceived not (a) as (rightly) opposed to enforcing Catholic canon law via the Constitution or law of this State, but (b) as unconcerned with maintaining what is the universal model of marriage as between male and female, a model which long pre-dates not only Roman Canon Law, but also the gospels and indeed the Hebrew bible.

Fri, 13 Mar, 2015

Look to Wales to solve our garda numbers problem

Discussion about garda numbers is never related to international comparisons.

Fri, 01 Feb, 2013

Privileged ‘freedom fighting’ on a global scale

FASCINATING how so many privileged rich kids need to play at being terrorists.

Wed, 18 Jan, 2012

Oath of allegiance needs explanation

NOTING the extensive coverage of an oath taken by Dana on acquiring US citizenship, in addition to her ongoing Irish citizenship, can we expect to see at least as much space devoted to the oath taken not to a democratic, law-based, state, but to an illegal, secret, armed, criminal conspiracy, taken by Martin McGuinness when, as he admits, he joined the IRA?

Tue, 11 Oct, 2011

Peace no more

THE fools, the fools, they have lent us their German euros, they have pushed their billions upon us.

Thu, 09 Dec, 2010

Are we a narrow tribe or a broad family?

I BELIEVE passionately in a “pluralist” Ireland.

Fri, 23 Oct, 2009

Hamas targeting Israeli civilians for eight years

THE media priority now given to the Israeli targeting of Hamas facilities in Gaza contrasts oddly with that not afforded to the bombardment of Israel with more than 8,000 rockets and mortar shells by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other armed elements within Gaza over the past eight years.

Sat, 03 Jan, 2009

Irish high-fliers in US uniforms

THE Irish presence is very strong in the US security field — as we are reminded by the recent story that US Central Command chief (covering the Middle East), Adm William J Fallon, is resigning and the acting chief will be Army Lt-Gen Martin Dempsey.

Wed, 19 Mar, 2008

We need to know what politicians get up to

TOM CAREW (Letters, September 24) may well be right when he says the Taoiseach is “one decent, honourable, incredibly hard-working public servant”.

Fri, 28 Sep, 2007

Why no tribunal to investigate the Provos’ millions?

WHEN will there be an inquiry into how Gerry Adams can afford a second home in Donegal?

Mon, 24 Sep, 2007

Harris is no armchair traveller

THE reaction to the Taoiseach’s unpredictable nomination of the indomitable Eoghan Harris to the Seanad was so, well, predictable.

Sat, 11 Aug, 2007

Displaced populations

ON the 40th anniversary of the June 1967 Six-Day War, many comments mention 500,000-700,000 Arabs displaced in 1948 as a key element.

Thu, 07 Jun, 2007

10 reasons why Tallaght should be the site for new children’s hospital

THERE are 10 reasons to shift the planned new National Children’s Hospital from the Mater site specifically to Tallaght, and to have only one advanced tertiary facility in the State for children.

Sat, 17 Feb, 2007

Islamic leaders see intolerance in the west, but not closer to home

THE following statement was made recently on behalf of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC): “Muslims have noted with concern that the values of tolerance are eroding and there is now shrinking space for others’ religious, social and cultural values in the west”.

Mon, 16 Oct, 2006

Hezbollah’s concealment tactics are the real cause of civilian casualties

IN this era, unlike World War II, with GPS, laser, high-speed data transmission, unmanned aerial vehicles and high-resolution aircraft photo-recce, in addition to instant radio communications, it should be apparent that the civilian casualties in Lebanon are not the result of inaccurate Israeli weapons, carelessness or malice, but of the genocidal Hezbollah freely engaging in the war crimes of firing and concealing their weapons among civilians.

Fri, 08 Sep, 2006

Apologists for Israeli tactics challenged

IT is hard to match the apologists for Israeli war crimes when it comes to off-the-wall propaganda.

Mon, 21 Aug, 2006

Only Hezbollah targets civilians

CHARLES HAYES (Irish Examiner letters, August 14) grossly misrepresents and misquotes my letter of August 9.

Thu, 17 Aug, 2006

Slaughter of children a crime against humanity

SURELY the wholesale butchery of children by precision weaponry is a crime against humanity. The many recent images of dead babies among the ruins of Lebanon and Gaza reinforces this belief.

Mon, 14 Aug, 2006

Why salute one generation of rebels and condemn another?

THE noted critic of militant republicanism, Tom Carew, would have us believe that the almost 30 years of strife in the North was just one very long crime wave — “organised serial mass murder”, he calls it (Irish Examiner letters, May 11).

Mon, 29 May, 2006

IRA hunger strikers were not criminals

THE opinions put forward by Tom Carew (Irish Examiner letters, May 11) about the 1981 hunger strikers were not only offensive and disrespectful, they were also littered with that tiresome kind of neo-unionism that is so prevalent in our contemporary print media.

Mon, 22 May, 2006

Now let’s honour the IRA’s prison staff victims?

THERE was massive publicity recently about the free choice of 10 convicted prisoners from two secret armed revolutionary gangs — INLA and PIRA — to use the emotional blackmail of a hunger strike to enforce their will within Northern Ireland’s prison system in 1981.

Thu, 11 May, 2006

Person: Tom Carew

Readers' Blog: Disgust at Limerick’s IRA song

Readers Blog: Removal of student president not democratic

Readers Blog: Unity has been part of Spain’s stability

We should change how we elect a Taoiseach

A ‘No’ vote will unfairly place gay couples in a legally subordinate position

Immoral use of artificial insemination, surrogacy

Same-sex marriage vote is not just about equality

Equal rights are sacred, but ideas are fair game

Marriage is based on a man and a woman who rear their own children

Look to Wales to solve our garda numbers problem

Privileged ‘freedom fighting’ on a global scale

Oath of allegiance needs explanation

Peace no more

Are we a narrow tribe or a broad family?

Hamas targeting Israeli civilians for eight years

Irish high-fliers in US uniforms

We need to know what politicians get up to

Why no tribunal to investigate the Provos’ millions?

Harris is no armchair traveller

Displaced populations

10 reasons why Tallaght should be the site for new children’s hospital

Islamic leaders see intolerance in the west, but not closer to home

Hezbollah’s concealment tactics are the real cause of civilian casualties

Apologists for Israeli tactics challenged

Only Hezbollah targets civilians

Slaughter of children a crime against humanity

Why salute one generation of rebels and condemn another?

IRA hunger strikers were not criminals

Now let’s honour the IRA’s prison staff victims?

Illegal immigrants don’t have the right to become a state within a state

Forgotten victims of Easter rebels

Riot was easily predictable

United in democracy

Anti-Americanism not part of Chomsky's argument

Chomsky free to air his tired bias

Mary’s colourful language sees off the politically correct begrudgers

Revealing raids

Offaly progress to semi

GAA: Mitchell the saviour as Westmeath beat Kildare

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