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Having our Catholic cake and eating it

Opinion

Having our Catholic cake and eating it

Image from Geograph Ireland copyright John Salter When news broke over the weekend about a Catholic school manager scuppering promotions of one teacher for being Protestant and another for being an unmarried mother, nothing was less surprising than the outrage online. Who do these nuns think they are, cried social media commentators, outraged that [...]

2018-12-01T09:52:42+00:00 December 7th, 2017|Categories: Opinion|Tags: Catholic Church, Education, equality, hospitals, jobs, LGBT, primary schools, religious divestment, secondary schools, single mothers, single parents, teaching, unmarried mothers|

Celebrating women #IWD2016

Opinion

Celebrating women #IWD2016

My enthusiasm for women and feminism is lifted every year by the sense of solidarity on two dates - Women's Christmas, and International Women's Day. This year I spent Women's Christmas speaking with Cork Simon's Colette O'Brien and Karen Songhurst at the Cork Simon Women's Christmas Lunch. And in time-honoured tradition my mother and sister-in-law [...]

2018-12-01T09:54:46+00:00 March 7th, 2016|Categories: Opinion|Tags: 50 50 Group, 8th Amendment, abortion, Amanda Varian, Carmel O'Keeffe, contraception, Cork Sexual Violence Centre, Cork Simon Community, domestic violence, Dress for Success Cork, gender quotas, Gina London, homelessness, International Women's Day 2016, Louise O'Neill, Mary Crilly, Rape, reproductive rights, Savita Halappanavar, sexual harassment, single parents, stalking, UCC, University College Cork, women|