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Entries Tagged as 'Feminism'

Freefall fairly free from oestrogen

September 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Feminism, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Recession

Lenihan was at the races when the head of the ECB called and he didn’t remember Cowen swearing during the talks where the Government guarantee was agreed on. And oh Brian Lenihan can speak French. What else can we garner from last nights Freefall other than the programme makers love shots of traffic and big […]

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Sin Binned

May 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Feminism

Oh I was rather hoping this would happen…and yes i know all the arguments about not talking about it so they don’t get attention. I’m not buying Hunky Dorys etc. but I do think a little lashing back is good for the soul and will make those passing by think a bit.

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Focus on Cervical Cancer Prevention

January 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Feminism, Lesbian, LGBT, Social Policy

Next week is European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. There are a number of developments recently in screening for cervical cancer – some I’ve previously written about which have concerned me but it’s vitally important that women continue to be screened for the disease.  (And for the many lovely lesbians who read this blog –  I […]

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And while I’m at it

November 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Feminism, MSM

People following me on twitter or reading the liveblogs are probably sick to the teeth of my ranting through the last few weeks about Vincent Browne’s problem with women. For a broadcaster so obsessed with equality this season’s show on TV3 has been marked by a lack of female guest on the first part of […]

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Radio’s new non-suffragettes

November 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Feminism, MSM

On the day when private clubs in Ireland won the right to discriminate not only against women but against anyone based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, parental status, family status and membership of the Travelling Community I hear RTE are launching a new radio programme. Girl Talk starts broadcasting next Saturday. The Apprentice’ star Jennifer […]

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