Michael Kirke was born in Ireland. In 1966 he graduated from University College Dublin (History and Politics). In that year he began working on the sub-editorial desk of The Evening Press in Dublin and in 1968 went to the newsroom of the Irish Press group of newspapers, contributing news and features to the group's three titles - morning, evening and Sunday papers. In 1969 he went to Belfast and covered the initial unravelling of the Unionist hegemony in the province. Later that year he became the group's education specialist. In 1973 took leave of absence to pursue postgraduate studies in education in Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated in 1976. In 1978 he left journalism and moved into teaching. In 1981 he was appointed headmaster of Rockbrook Park School in Dublin (www.rockbrook.ie). In 1994 made another career shift, left teaching and moved to Galway in the West of Ireland where he began working part-time in media again. He is now back in Dublin, working in media and as a freelance writer. His main interests are in cultural, political, and educational affairs, probably in that order.
One-time New York Times columnist Bari Weiss is fighting back. And she is not alone.
Date posted: 2021-07-31
Members of the Irish parliament have been listening to a very disturbing story. Facebook is a big player in the Irish tech economy but the underbelly of this giant is now being exposed. Within its entrails it is harbouring a monster.
Date posted: 2021-05-20
The interplay of trauma, existential insecurity, and general woe, and the story of mankind's belief in another life, in God or in gods, seems to persist throughout the ages. Ultimate happiness may still depend on certain 'mysterious forces'.
Date posted: 2020-09-16
An Italian journalist gives advice that has feminists fuming. Is she mad?
Date posted: 2014-04-05
Unlike America, the conservative party pushed through conservative PM David Cameron's legislation. In the new legal definition of marriage it is no longer a bond formed by a man and a woman but can be formed by two men or two women.
Date posted: 2013-03-16
Mr Leigh's action was prompted to act after the case of Adrian Smith, a 55-year-old housing manager from Manchester who posted his opposition to same-sex marriage on Facebook and was punished by his employer.
Date posted: 2013-02-18
Ireland's Press Council was praised by the Leveson Inquiry. But it hasn't put a stop to the group think in the Irish media.
Date posted: 2012-12-19
A mother's death becomes instant propaganda for dismantling protection of unborn children.
Date posted: 2012-11-23
The University of Texas - Austin has done a thoroughly good piece of work in vindicating Professor Mark Regnerus in the face of allegations of what amounted to professional misconduct. Perhaps its officials feel it is a pity that they cannot make counter-charges of time-wasting against those who trumped up the charges against him.
Date posted: 2012-09-07
Even the most hardened cynic must have found his stomach turning as he listened to the Irish Foreign Minister proclaim his support for true love and marital commitment in Dublin.
Date posted: 2012-07-11
"Mr Cameron is pushing gay marriage and picking a fight with the church for political reasons. It is indeed unnecessary", the paper's editorial declared in last week's edition and quoted a former British Labour minister, the openly homosexual Ben Bradshaw, as saying that the proposal is totally unnecessary.
Date posted: 2012-05-10
The people of Slovenia has shown the government and the whole of Europe that claims for privileges for a minority cannot be accommodated at the expense of the most fundamental right of every child: the right to have a father and a mother.
Date posted: 2012-04-10
The Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has issued a judgement saying that the European Convention on Human Rights "does not require member states' governments to grant same-sex couples access to marriage." This is not a question of discrimination or human rights, the court has ruled. It reached a decision in the case of a lesbian couple in France.
Date posted: 2012-04-10
Sometime after David Cameron's election as leader of the Conservative Party in Britain he began to make positive noises about the importance of the family - and of marriage as the institution which gave it stability in society. When the Tories won enough votes in the last general election to enable them to form a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats some thought things might improve.
Date posted: 2012-04-02
"What I'm saying, and what the bishops are saying, is that marriage is child-centred, even though children may be involuntarily absent from good marriages. We cut that anchor at our peril. For the optimal environment for raising children you need a stable environment with parents of either gender. And even in a reluctantly childless marriage, the complementarity of the sexes, the very fact of sexual difference, gives the institution its nature, its charge. To say as much isn't to advance a religious argument. It's to work from nature, from history, from human experience. The very definition of a marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Let's leave it like that."
Date posted: 2012-04-01
Clearly, what we are confronted with here is more of the same - phony principles, redefinition of that basic building brick of community, the family, and therefore a very wobbly definition of society itself.
Date posted: 2012-03-03