Example sentences of "irish time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a belief which has intellectual credence in Ireland ( O'Tuathaig 1986 and M. M. Ireland 's responding letter , Irish Times , 8 Dec. 1986 ) . |
| 2 | He handed on the correspondence between himself and the Bishops to the Irish Times , the recognized liberal and ‘ protestant ’ newspaper of the republic . |
| 3 | As the ruling only applies to the institutions named , SPUC intends to get further banning orders made against other groups and named individuals as and when it becomes ‘ necessary ’ ( Irish Times , 30 Dec. 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Large publicity campaigns began and the Irish Times also lent its weight to the pro-divorce argument , campaigning in its columns until the eve of the referendum in late June . |
| 5 | The four Roman catholic archbishops replied on 28 April that they opposed divorce in general , and particularly the type of what they considered to be unrestricted divorce proposed in the constitutional amendment ( Irish Times , 28 Apr. 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Though in the statement it was mentioned that statistics from other countries were too unreliable to say that pro-divorce legislation increased the instability of marriages and led to an ever-increasing number of breakdowns , Archbishop McNamara was already preaching by 6 May that divorce ‘ makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for everyone ’ ( Irish Times , 7 May 1986 ) . |
| 7 | A priest from County Galway , in a letter to the Irish Times , informed that Dr Enda McDonagh , a noted Roman catholic moral theologian , had told priests of the Tuam archdiocese in January that it was possible to make a distinction between the church 's teaching on the ideal of marriage and divorce as a civil right . |
| 8 | Standún , intended to vote in favour at the referendum along with ‘ many clergymen ’ ( Irish Times , 10 May 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Pat O'Brien addressed the Divorce Action Group in Galway on 27 May , supporting their campaign on the grounds of religious freedom for minorities ( Irish Times , 29 May 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
| 12 | An opinion poll conducted on 28–9 April and sponsored by the Irish Times showed 57 per cent in favour of the divorce amendment with only 7 per cent undecided . |
| 13 | But , one week later , this had fallen to 49 per cent in favour ( see Irish Times , 5 May 1986 and Sunday Press , 11 May 1986 ) . |
| 14 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 15 | ( Dáil debate , 14 May 1986 , as reported by Dick Walsh , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) |
| 16 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 17 | In early May , two-thirds of Fianna Fáil TDs from the West had already indicated they would campaign in their constituencies against the amendment ( Irish Times , 2 May 1986 ) . |
| 18 | In the Dáil debate of 20 May , Padraig Faulkner , TD of Fianna Fáil argued that the introduction of divorce would indeed end up as divorce on demand anyway , and Charles Haughey indicated his ‘ personal view ’ that divorce was bad for ‘ individual stability ’ ( Irish Times , 21 May 1986 ) . |
| 19 | He also instructed his parish priests in a letter , leaked to the Irish Times , to have the bishops pastoral Marriage , the Family and Divorce distributed to every home in the archdiocese along with special bidding prayers invoking divine protection for marriages and the guidance of Holy Spirit ‘ at this critical time of decision for families and our country ’ ( Irish Times , 17 May 1986 ) . |
| 20 | He also instructed his parish priests in a letter , leaked to the Irish Times , to have the bishops pastoral Marriage , the Family and Divorce distributed to every home in the archdiocese along with special bidding prayers invoking divine protection for marriages and the guidance of Holy Spirit ‘ at this critical time of decision for families and our country ’ ( Irish Times , 17 May 1986 ) . |
| 21 | By the end of the month , it was reported to be ‘ selling well ’ ( Irish Times , 30 May 1985 ) . |
| 22 | Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Voters had to decide in conscience ‘ whether other factors outweigh the damage which divorce would certainly cause to individuals , to families , to children and to the whole of society ’ ( Irish Times , 13 June 1986 ) . |
| 24 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 25 | ( Irish Times , 17 May 1986 ) |
| 26 | As Bishop Empey argued to the synod : ‘ Somehow we have to nail the lie that permissiveness flows from the Church of Ireland and that morality is the sole possession of but one Church in this land ’ ( Irish Times , 22 May 1986 ) . |
| 27 | ( Irish Times , 22 May 1986 ) |
| 28 | At its annual meeting in Belfast , the Presbyterian General Assembly received a report promoting the amendment as implementing a rightful civil liberty ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ) . |
| 29 | He found it ironic that anyone who supported the Anglo-Irish Agreement could oppose a modest measure to introduce divorce ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 30 | He used the columns of the Irish Times to inform Roman catholic consciences of permitted interpretations of state divorce on the grounds of religious liberty , interpretations which were diametrically opposed to that of the Irish bishops . |