white privilege

On this week's episode of The Suss, Steph and Glenn tackle the issues of privilege and prejudice in Irish society. Glenn sits down with Eileen Flynn, a proud member of the Irish Travelling community, for a chat about the systemic lack of…

Remember when people strived to be cool? People used to go out of their way to manufacture an air of coolness about themselves. There used to be a universal understanding that if you remained calm and kept your ego-laden-opinion to…

Much has been written in Irish media of late relating to questions of privilege, intersectionality and call out culture. We had Frankie Gaffney's opinion piece in The Irish Times, an open letter in response to this, the comments from left…

“Northern Ireland?” The cashier in Gregg’s takes my ten pound note suspiciously, scrutinising it first before turning her attention to me. “I don’t know if I can take this,” she says. “I’ll have to check.” I’ve attempted to pay for steak…

I’ve revisited this sentence a few times, wondering how best to phrase it in a way that isn’t immediately offensive, or doesn’t write me off as ignorant, but I don’t know how else to say it; the first thing I noticed when I landed in…