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Entries Tagged as 'Equality'

Garda Representatives respond to Sunday Independent’s homophobia

August 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Equality, Homophobia

Many thanks to Ian for the tip on this letter in yesterday’s Sunday Independent from the General Secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors. Last weeks article you will remember was a load of rubbish from Jim Cusack. The letter is excellent in both it’s rebuttal and also in naming the impact of […]

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Mary Harney cops out on Cervical Cancer vaccine roll out

August 5th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics

I haven’t read such a half hearted announcement for a campaign to protect women’s health in ages, I was waiting to see if Mary Harney would bite the bullet – but it seems she put on her vest and is playing russian roulette instead. Minister Harney Approves Introduction Of Cervical Cancer Vaccination Programme 5 August […]

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Jon Stewart on ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’

July 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Equality, Homophobia

If you are wondering who Elaine Donnelly is, aka the fount of all ‘wisdom’ on gays in the army, she works for the Center for Military Readiness – or to put it simply she spends her time campaigning against women and gays in the army!

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The end of seperate/’independent’ equality and human rights infrastructures in Ireland?

July 24th, 2008 · 15 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, Recession

Deaglán de Bréadún’s report in this morning’s Irish Times does not come a surprise. The Department of Justice had a meeting yesterday morning with the agencies linked to it and the Equality Authority, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the Data Protection Commissioner have been told their days are numbered. Well they have been told […]

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Scrutinising our lives

April 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Equality, Gay, Irish Politics, Lesbian, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.” (Audre Lorde – Poetry Is Not A Luxury) The time has (more than) come to reframe the narrow terms of the marriage debate […]

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