Iona Institute
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| Motto | "For Religion and Society" |
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| Established | January 2007 |
| Founder | David Quinn |
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Chairman
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Dr. John Murray |
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Director
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David Quinn |
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Key people
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| Mission | Promotion of religion and socially conservative values |
| Website | www |
The Iona Institute is a socially conservative Catholicadvocacy group, sometimes described as a Catholic pressure group, based in Ireland. Founded by columnist David Quinn, it was launched publicly in 2007.
Iona promotes conservative Christian values and opposes abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage and civil partnerships. It takes the view that crime is rising, family breakdown is increasing, and that drug abuse and other social problems are caused by fewer people obtaining opposite-sex marriages and participating in organised religion. Since its foundation the group has released a number of reports in support of its aims, it also hosts talks relating to the issues it campaigns on.
Its members (described as "patrons") are the psychiatrist Prof. Patricia Casey, columnist Breda O'Brien, Roman Catholic priest and theologian Prof. Vincent Twomey, Anglican Bishop Rt. Rev. Ken Clarke, and Blackrock Clinic co-founder, orthopaedic surgeon and engineer, Jimmy Sheehan. The philosophy lecturer, Dr. Angelo Bottone serves as research officer for the Institute.
"The Iona Institute" is a trading name of Lolek Ltd, a private limited company incorporated in Ireland in August 2006. Whereas "Institute" is a restricted term in the UK, it is not in Ireland.Graham Norton commented, "Everyone knows the use of the word ‘institute’ is just a feeble attempt to give themselves a veneer of considered intellectual respectability."David Norris referred to "the so-called Iona Institute" as "an unelected, unrepresentative group of reactionary, right-wing, religiously motivated people".
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