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The Empire of Misogyny – Tales of The Catholic Church
Almost exactly five years ago, I attended the Commission on the Status of Women, an annual event at the UN in New York dedicated to women’s rights. It’s quite a big deal, attracting government officials, politicians and academics as well as…
Gun Control & The Pursuit of Happiness
Guns, mental illness, and violence are one of the most explosive Molotov cocktails being thrown at steps of the Capitol, threatening everything that America is founded upon. There is no pursuit of happiness when our own children don’t feel…
International Women’s Day | Women and Poverty: A Global Problem
Poverty remains an issue of utterly singular importance in the lives of millions of people in America and across the globe. At this moment, by some accounts, there are five (5!) human beings on earth who own as much wealth as the poorer…
Politics Is Not Politics Anymore | Trumpsters, Tinder & Partisanship
Back during the 2016 presidential race, I’d have refused to believe adults would still be using, at the beginning of 2018, the word “Trumpism.” Several things were supposed to happen long before that, one of which involved a certain…
Our Odd Couple Fall Out Again | The Collapse of Stormont
When news broke of the collapse at Stormont and the current round of political attempts to bring devolved government back to Northern Ireland, as it is found in Edinburgh and Cardiff, hundreds of us went to the theatre, specifically to The…
She’s Very Sensitive, You Know…. | Walking on Eggshells
“She’s very sensitive, you know.”
So, can one measure sensitivity? Is there some kind of Geiger counter, a receptacle where you give a urine or blood sample and hey presto! one’s sensitivity reading scrolls across a computer screen in…
Nothing to Gain, Everything to Lose | The Smoking Gun
Cancer has been an ever present aspect of my life for the last number of years. It has defined the way I think and how I approach different situations. Here’s the funny thing though; I don’t have cancer. Nor do any of the people in my…
The Anxious Generation, the Plugged-In Generation
When I was a kid, things were much different than they are now. I know saying that makes me sound like one of those grouchy complainers who always takes shots at the up and coming generations, but it’s true. I remember my main sources of…
The Forgotten Story of the Green Party’s Housing Reforms
“Let’s be clear. A deal with Fianna Fail would be a deal with the devil. We would be spat out after five years, and decimated as a party. But… would it be worth it? Power is a many-faceted thing.”
Ciaran Cuffe, Green Party TD, May 28th…
Irish Media and the Gender Problem
Newstalk announced recently, that after a mere four month suspension for extremely offensive comments about rape, George Hook will be returning to the Irish airwaves with his very own new Saturday morning show. Meanwhile Dil Wickremasinghe…