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Are dissenting voices in Ireland being silenced?

“I no longer feel safe” - that was the reason Independent Senator Sharon Keogan gave when she res...

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09.50 28 Apr 2022


Are dissenting voices in Ireland being silenced?


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09.50 28 Apr 2022


“I no longer feel safe” - that was the reason Independent Senator Sharon Keogan gave when she resigned from the Oireachtas Committee on Children yesterday

Senator Keogan’s resignation comes after she was accused of being “disrespectful” to witnesses in the following address at a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy last week.

Brenda Power, Columnist with the Sunday Times and the Irish Daily Mail spoke to Ciara this morning with her reaction.

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