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Posted in Crime, Feminism, Ireland, Legal, Politics, Society on Apr 5th, 2011
THE four-letter word I most dislike begins with a ‘C’. We’ve already had that debate on this blog. But the most abused and misused four-letter word I can think of is ‘rape’. There was a time, not too long ago, where it wasn’t considered polite to mention rape in conversation. Too raw, too politically-charged, too [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Health, Legal, Parenting, Personal, Politics on Dec 16th, 2010
The ECHR judgement that Anthea McTiernan wrote about so eloquently yesterday has highlighted the journeys made every year by Irish women seeking abortions in the UK. Here one of those women, Molly McCarthy, tells her story. It’s with great joy I hear of the ECHR finding that the courts were not the appropriate place to determine [...]
Posted in Family, Feminism, Health, Ireland, Legal, Politics, Society, Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2010
The figures aren’t in yet for 2010, but in 2009 we welcomed a whole heap of little girls to Ireland. Sophie, Ava, Emma, Sarah, Grace, Emily, Katie, Lucy, Aoife and Chloe – welcome! You are the proud owners of the top 10 girls’ names in the State. They are beautiful names. We hope you get [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Crime, Guest Posters, Ireland, Legal, Women on Nov 22nd, 2010
The sentencing last week of Stephen “Rossi” Walsh for the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl some 20 years ago is simply one of the dozens of crimes against women that pass through the Central Criminal Court each year. 62-year-old Dubliner, Walsh hit the headlines because of his long and glittering career as a criminal [...]
Posted in Crime, Economics, International, Ireland, Legal, Politics, Uncategorized, Women on Nov 18th, 2010
“It is now more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier in modern conflict.” Major General Patrick Cammaert, former UN Peacekeeping Operation Commander in DRC. Yesterday, during a briefing organised by the Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence, a characteristically calm and measured Mary Robinson spoke movingly of a recent visit to [...]
Posted in International, Legal, News, Politics, Women on Aug 6th, 2010
I remember the first time I saw a woman in Dublin wearing a burqa. It was May, 2003; the final day of my third-year college exams. I was sitting on the footpath on the South Circular Road, doing some last-minute revision. As I was skimming through my notes, I noticed what appeared to be a [...]
Posted in Legal, Relationships on Jul 22nd, 2010
Arlene Hunt. There you go, that’s it. That’s the name I’ve had for nearly 38 years. It’s on my passport, my driving license, my books, my mortgage paper work, oh, and my birth cert. Suffice to say it is as much a part of my identity as my grey eyes and my height. So much [...]
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