Everyday Ethics

Apr 06 2025 4 ep. 28 mins 21.1k

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Provocative weekly debate on moral, religious and ethical issues. From BBC Radio Ulster

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Duty of Candour

Apr 06 2025 21 mins

If a doctor or a nurse makes a mistake with your care, or the care of a loved one, you would expect to be told about it. But putting in place a process where there is a duty of candour within the health service is proving extremely difficult. Northern Ireland remains the only part of the UK or Ireland not to have one. The Hyponatraemia inquiry into the deaths of five children in ho

Life After Life

Mar 30 2025 33 mins

After 15 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit, in an exclusive interview Audrey Carville talks to Paddy Armstrong and his wife Caroline Armstrong about his life, now.

Religion - a fading force, or making a comeback in politics?

Mar 23 2025 28 mins

Were the secularists right in their declaration that religion is in the museum of history or is religion far from dead in 2025? It's a question provoked by a recent lecture given in Maynooth university in County Kildare by one of the best-known theologians from these islands. Dr Anna Rowlands, who is professor of Catholic social thought at Durham University and a recent advisor to

The death of society - are we all just individuals now?

Mar 16 2025 28 mins

It's nearly 40 years since Maggie Thatcher declared the end of society. "There is no such thing. There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business. 'It is I think