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** In This Week’s Issue:
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* Mounting pushback online over media coverage of rising abortion rate🗣️
* A small glimpse at some of the online engagement in recent days📱
* Speaking truth to power: Senator Mullen in the Seanad this week 📢
* Highland Radio interview with Eilís Mulroy of the PLC 🎧
* Last chance to make a complaint about Ireland AM feature making light of abortion!🚨
* Join the LoveBoth 5K Your Way this summer ☀️
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* Ceiliúradh Cois Life annual dinner - Tickets available 🙌
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Mairéad Ní Dhálaigh (left) and Kieran Cuddihy (right)
** Mounting pushback online over media coverage of rising abortion rate
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There was a time when mainstream media could suppress major stories of public interest without facing any fallout. That era is over – and it must be deeply unsettling for them.
Last Friday, under the cover of night, the Government sheepishly released the latest abortion figures. It was a quiet disclosure – just enough for media outlets to claim plausible deniability. The figure: 10,852 abortions in Ireland in 2024, a 280% increase from the 2,879 abortions reported in 2018.
Predictably, most major outlets remained silent. But over the weekend, social media ignited. People questioned the conspicuous media silence surrounding them. As the new week began, that pressure began to work. Gradually and reluctantly, media outlets started covering the story they had tried to ignore.
If the story had been one that favoured the pro-abortion side, there’s simply no way it would have taken so long to make the news. Everyone knows – despite media protestations to the contrary – it would have remained a headline story on RTÉ and other outlets all weekend long, flooding the airwaves with pro-abortion propaganda.
While the mainstream media eventually got around to reporting the numbers – prompted in no small way by the backlash on social media – the reporting to date has been very tokenistic and grudging, with no serious effort being made to examine or question the pro-abortion position and the devastating consequences of the new law.
On the few occasions that the national media conducted interviews on the subject this week, they were polite nodding sessions, full of carefully curated questions. A case in point was Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy and his interview with abortion-supporting medic Dr Madeleine Ní Dhálaigh.
Cuddihy asked one softball question after another and allowed Ní Dhálaigh to recycle the same false and misleading claim over and over that the abortions being carried out under the new law are an integral part of ‘healthcare’ and constitute necessary medical ‘treatments’.
Only when subjected to these hollow, performative interviews does it truly hit home how far journalistic standards in Ireland have dropped – and how much the public are being taken for fools.
Credit where it’s due though: local media continues to value honest debate, setting a much higher bar than their national counterparts. They proved that again this week.
** A small glimpse at some of the online engagement in recent days
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Facebook (left) and X (right)
To illustrate the level of engagement on social media regarding the latest abortion figures, there were 176,900 views on our X account (formerly Twitter) of the Pro Life Campaign’s press statement, 92,868 views of the statement on our Facebook account, 5,226 interactions, 503 shares and 1,497 comments. These are just the interactions that took place on PLC accounts.
Across social media, a very clear message is being sent to the mainstream media that people are noticing their bias and lack of coverage of certain issues. We have to keep the pressure up to ensure fairness and objectivity make a comeback!
See our post on Facebook ([link removed])
See our post on X ([link removed])
Senator Rónan Mullen
** Speaking truth to power: Senator Mullen in the Seanad this week ([link removed])
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When leaders try to dodge responsibility, it’s more important than ever to hold them to account. Some will say, “What’s the point in challenging the Government on the latest abortion numbers? It won’t change anything.” But that’s simply not true. Speaking the truth matters - whether it’s convenient or not, whether it wins applause or draws criticism.
Senator Mullen continues to show what conviction looks like. Alongside other pro-life voices in the Oireachtas, he understands the need to stand firm and speak out. His words this week were powerful, principled, and absolutely necessary. We’re profoundly thankful for his courage and his commitment to life.
Watch Senator Mullen’s intervention here ([link removed])
Highland Radio interview with Eilís Mulroy of the PLC
Eilís Mulroy of the Pro Life Campaign did several media interviews this week on the release of the latest abortion numbers.
Here’s a link to one of the interviews, which is well worth a listen. It was on Highland Radio.
Click the link below to listen (there are a number of links to interviews when you click on the page but you’ll find the interview with Eilís at 25 minutes in on the third segment of the programme)
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Ireland AM Presenters Muireann O’Connell and Tommy Bowe
Last chance to make a complaint about Ireland AM feature making light of abortion!
In June, Ireland AM broadcast an interview which was heavily condemned online for making light of the seriousness of abortion. Comments linking St Brigid with abortion were widely considered offensive, whilst the entire tone of the interview with the comedian, Ms Katie Boyle, including the laughing of the hosts in response to discussing abortion was considered distasteful and insensitive.
The Pro Life Campaign made an official complaint to Virgin Media Television arguing that the broadcaster responsible for airing Ireland AM undermined its obligation to treat contentious and deeply personal issues with fairness in accordance with s. 46L of the Broadcasting Act 2009.
Complaints must be lodged within 30 days of broadcast. This means there is less than a week left before all complaints must be received, in order to be considered. Those wishing to register their concern with Ireland AM should email them directly at
[email protected]. Complaints must first be made to the broadcaster before they can be considered at a later stage by the state media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán.
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The date for Ceiliúradh Cois Life annual dinner is confirmed. This year we will return to the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road on Saturday 20th September 2025.
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Senator Rónan Mullen
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