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Posted in Education, Guest Posters, Parenting on Oct 17th, 2011
I participated in the recent protest in Dublin about cutbacks to Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) in schools, bringing with me half a dozen eggs with the intention of lobbing them at the front door of the Central Bank on Dame Street. In the event it didn’t seem right to do that in front of the [...]
Posted in Anti-heroes, Anti-Heroines, Body image, Education, Feminism, Ireland, LGBTQ Issues, Media, Personal, Politics, Sport, Women on Aug 12th, 2011
“I DON’T KNOW which of us is worse off,” said my aunt. She felt growing up that she had no choice but to marry and have children. “But I look at you and my girls and you have so many choices that it must be difficult to make one and not feel you are missing [...]
Posted in Crime, Domestic, Economics, Education, Family, Feminism, International, Women on Jul 15th, 2011
I’ve just started reading a book. Normally, I would wait until I’d finished reading a book before offering it – and my thoughts on it – up for you to consider. But I feel this book deals with such an important subject that I can’t wait until I’ve finished to talk/write about it. This book – “Unnatural [...]
Posted in Education, Family, Health, Ireland, Parenting, Society on Jul 14th, 2011
A very brave girl recently posted her experiences of being bullied on the SpunOut.ie website under the heading “True life: Even if this only helps one person, it will still be worth it.” She describes a lifetime filled with sadness and horror. Tormented by bullies from the age of four, she felt unable to turn [...]
There’s a problem with girls and maths. If this year is like previous years, then fewer female students will be taking higher level maths today than their male peers. What is happening here? Is this the problem we have heard about for years? – that well-known stereotype that says girls just aren’t good at [...]
I had a meeting last week with some people involved in adult education. As a writer who counts teaching creative writing as one of her jobs, it’s an area that I hover at the fringes of. On the one hand, yes, I teach adults (some of the time) – they are evening classes; they are [...]
Posted in Education, Guest Posters, Personal on Mar 24th, 2011
Salvete! Abigail Rieley on the joys of learning Latin. The Eagle, based on The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff, hits Irish cinemas this weekend – I’m counting the days. Every time I see those toilet brush helmets my heart gives a little flutter. It’s not the sight of Russell Crowe wielding a gladius [...]
Posted in Education, Feminism, Health, Interviews, Media, Rants, Science, Women on Feb 2nd, 2011
Patrick Holford’s appearance on the Late Late on Friday was televised to the nation as a gospel proclamation: come see my magic works and repent, oh ye of little scientific understanding. I presumed that this would be the part of the show where RTE trot out someone to allow the audience to snigger at their [...]
Posted in Education, Family, Ireland, Legal, News, Parenting, Rants, Society on Dec 14th, 2010
I’m sitting in a large auditorium with my husband. We, along with the hundreds of other parents present, are thinking of applying for a place for our son in the school which houses this impressive theatre. We listen to various speakers describe the amazing facilities on offer; the state-of-the-art science and computer labs, the 25 metre [...]
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