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2015: THE YEAR ON TWITTER
It's that time of year again. The end of it. The time when Christmas has already been going on for about four months and we're just waiting for it to finally be over. When we're all trying to convince ourselves that 2016 might just be our…
Christmas Time & Seasonal Shame
The Irish Times is a major newspaper in Ireland. The weekend edition is published each Saturday and includes a magazine with human-interest features on celebrities, personalities, food, fashion, travel and gardening. There's a comprehensive…
100 Women a Week: Stop Exporting Our Abortion Issue
A lot of people think that the fight for gender equality is unnecessary. Others think that certain human rights should be reserved only for men. Some people even think that supporting women in the struggle for full body autonomy is a futile…
We Are Not Permanently Offended, We Just Know How to Not be Assholes
Last month, the Independent published an article that boasted the title 'Young, well educated - and permanently offended.' It would be monumentally ironic if I were to say that I was offended by this article. I was not. I was, however,…
Let’s Just Stop Body Shaming Each Other
A few weeks ago, a group of seemingly innocuous men got on some Tubes and quietly harassed some Londoners about their weight. They proclaimed themselves ‘Overweight Haters Ltd’ – a title which they had printed on an unknown amount of…
ISIS SCHMISHISH
With a backdrop of exquisite costumes, ornate buildings and stunning landscapes, Arabian Nights, Pasolini’s 1974 film, portrays the ancient Ottoman world through several linked stories involving precariously innocent relationships and ready…
Decriminalising Drug Use in Ireland; Let’s Keep Talking
Back in March, the Independent reported that Health Minister Leo Varadkar supported a “more liberal approach” to drug use in Ireland. This was in response to the emergency meetings called when a ‘legal loophole’ decriminalised the use of…
SeaWorld Scrapping Orca Shows is Great News for Whales Everywhere! Or is it?
SeaWorld San Diego recently announced plans to phase out their theatrical orca whale show some time before 2017. The infamous demonstration which sees captive whales do a variety of tricks and flips under the instruction of a trainer has…
Film Comment – Denis Staunton Finds Nostalgia In England Through Spectre and The Lady In The…
Denis Staunton, a columnist with The Irish Times, finds nostalgia at the heart of two recent films in his column on 20.11.2015. The latest James Bond film, Spectre, is set in a globalised England. The Alan Bennett bio-pic, The Lady in the…
The Paris Attacks and the Problem of Language
Fionola Meredith writes an opinion column in the Belfast Telegraph, one of Northern Ireland's leading daily newspapers. In Friday's edition, she is angry. She is forceful, polemical and vehement. Writing trenchantly, under the headline…