As a paid-up fan of the nanny state in most situations it’s not often I’m the first to shout ‘stop’ to public health measures, but they’ve finally hit me where it hurts. A proposal announced yesterday to stop hairdressers serving a glass of whatever takes your fancy stopped me in my tracks. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVmvTpXh7AE/?taken-by=deshocks Is there [...]
On yesterday's RTE Today show (which you can watch at the link), I asked: Can weddings be feminist? So many of the traditional symbols around the big day are inherently patriarchal that it can be hard to see beyond them. A white dress symbolising virginity; a diamond ring to say you're taken; being 'given away' like [...]
Fans of Bridget Jones will be astonished to learn that their single girl idol, the British Carrie Bradshaw, is now 51. And, although she and Mark were destined to live happily ever after, well… that wouldn’t make a very good third book (spoiler alert – don’t read on if you don’t want to know any more). [...]
Rosie-the-Riveter (Photo credit: SBT4NOW) This week, Fianna Fáil launched a plan to get more women involved in the party. Senator Averil Power, one of the party’s two female Oireachtas members, launched the plan with party leader Micheál Martin and Niamh Gallagher of Women for Election, a non-partisan training body that is focussed on improving [...]
On Today, Thursday 31 January, we discussed what your position in the family says about you, among other things. I'm an only child, so that's always a topic of interest to me. We also had a chat about some new films that are coming out, and Cork Rebel Week. I'm all in favour! Have a look [...]
