Margaret Hickey

  The following first appeared in the Irish publication Position Papers (positionpapers.ie) on December 1, 2025. It is reprinted here with permission.   It is a truth not (yet) universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a large grievance must be in want of... Read More →

  The Irish presidential election is due to take place on October 24th and at this point the story is all about someone who isn’t a candidate at all. That is Maria Steen, a well qualified, highly capable and well known conservative Catholic commentator and campaigner... Read More →

[Margaret Hickey, a freelance columnist, writes for the Irish Dominican publication, Alive, and reviews for the Irish monthly magazine Position Papers. The following was originally posted April 29, 2025, on the Human Life Review’s website.] ___________________________________... Read More →

  Public opinion inside and outside the Church is split three ways about the kind of leader the Church needs at this defining moment of its history: another Francis (“a continuity candidate”), a pope in the mold of John Paul II or Benedict XVI, or a hybrid, someone between... Read More →

  The US presidential election galvanised Ireland almost as much as America. That wasn’t just because of familial ties between the countries or the fact that Ireland’s current prosperity is in no small part due to American corporate behemoths located here, but because the... Read More →