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Post-Brexit Potatoes: Ireland & the UK
My English flatmate has left another potato in my cupboard. Apparently whenever she sees a loose potato in the kitchen she assumes its mine and puts it in my press. The first time she did it I didn’t make a big deal out of it; I jokingly…
We Are All Complicit in the Catholic Church’s Corruption
The greatest trick the Church ever played was convincing the Irish that it wasn’t dictating our lives. Catholicism has a way of forcing itself upon the Irish psyche, but it goes about its work with such subtlety that we still react to its…
Innocence Turned to Ashes in Guatemala Children’s Home Fire
In the early hours of the morning on March 8th, International Women's Day, when women all over the world were marching for sexual and reproductive rights and an end to gender based violence, 52 Guatemalan girls, residents of a state…
Setting the Record Straight | Great Anger at the ‘RTÉ Recognition 4 Repeal’ Protest
On March 8th, an estimated 10,000 people partook in a march in Dublin to protest Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, which positions the life of the unborn as equal to that of its mother. This restricts abortion access for Irish women and forces…
The Same, Only Different | Northern Ireland’s Elections
Two elections to the local legislative assembly, within a year, have left the political situation in Northern Ireland exactly the same. Only different.
The same because the two largest parties remain the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)…
“Brexit simply won’t do” | What Hard Borders Mean For Me and For You
You’re a stuffy, uptight middle class voter living in a nice house somewhere in Surrey. You voted for New Labour when you were younger and optimistic, but voted for David Cameron’s version of Conservatism in the wake of the economic crash.…
Picket? What, my nose?
Unless you’ve been living under a stone, you’ll know that Tesco workers across a number of stores are over a week out on strike. Unfortunately, when asked nowadays about a picket, many are more likely to ask "what, my nose?" than realise…
“Treated Like Trash” | Why Irish Sex Workers don’t report assaults to the Gardaí
‘Susan’ worked as an escort on-and-off about four years before she met with Donal Lehane in a Dublin hotel on March 28th 2010. Both were travelling up to the capital that weekend. Lehane a self-employed accountant, married with three…
Dublin’s Educational Inequalities Are Not Exactly an Astounding New Discovery
“School-leavers from more affluent backgrounds are much more likely to have places in universities offering high-points,” concluded the most recent Irish Times study on educational inequality. It’s a conclusion that, from anyone I’ve talked…
Trump’s Attempt at a Muslim Ban is Brown-Nosing to those who Hate Brown Faces
Dedicated to all those killed in the Bowling Green Massacre, and to NBC's Brian Williams who was there.
The Thursday of Trump’s executive order prohibiting the entry of Muslims from seven Arab states into the US, I found myself wandering…