The Iona Institute ~ for Religion and Society

• Majority of Britons believe religion is a force for good
• Waters warns of growing attack on religious freedom
• Northern Ireland society breaking down says think tank
• Women’s ‘double shift’ of home and work duties a myth finds new research
• Controversial Equal Treatment directive held up by disagreements

• The recession and marriage
• Is race a relevant factor in adoption decisions?
• Money scruples obscure real moral issue in AHR debate
• Britain’s failed teenage pregnancy strategy
• Is Ireland really the most expensive for day-care?

• Lecture: "Why religion will make a comeback"
  10th June 2010
• Lecture: ‘Reducing teenage pregnancy and sexual activity’
  25th March 2010
• Making Babies: a conference on the ethics of Assisted Human Reproduction
  9th December 2009
• Studies/Iona Institute lecture: 'The place of religion within the European Union'
  16th November 2009

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Board of Directors

Chairperson: Dr Andrew O'Connell is Communications Director for the Presentation Brothers in Ireland.

Secretary: Pat Kenny. Mr Kenny is a lecturer in marketing at DIT.

Other Members:

Sean Ascough is a self-employed Chartered Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and has almost twenty years experience of youth evangelisation and other religious initiatives.

Tom Ascough is a consultant engineer who has 15 years experience in youth evangelisation programmes.

Maeve Kelleher is married with six children. She is a stay-at-home mother.

Dr John Murray is a lecturer at Mater Dei Institute.

Dr Brendan Purcell is a former lecturer in philosophy at UCD and is a priest of the Dublin diocese.

John Reid is Managing Partner of law firm, O'Rourke Reid. 

The Iona Institute is a private company limited by guarantee. The company number is 424940. The charity number is 17347.

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