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Mary McAleese visits TCD Law Soc

When asked what her greatest achievement was during her time in office, she referred to fulfilling her election slogan of “building bridges”

NEWSFormer President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, spoke to TCD Law Society today after receiving the society’s Praeses Elit Award.

Speaking in the debating chamber of the GMB, Professor McAleese covered a variety of topics in a Q&A session.

When asked …

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Why Mary McAleese was right to raise LGBT suicide risk

No campaigners are trying to protect themselves from the idea that they are complicit in damaging the mental health of thousands of people in the coming month.

comment1Prof Patricia Casey writes in the Sunday Independent that the claims made by former president Mary McAleese regarding the high suicide risk in homosexuals are “a surprise”, “ignoring the complexity of suicide” and threaten to “muddy our discourse on the …