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Section 37 of Employment Equality Act raised at Teachers Conference

April 28th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics, LGBT

The Minister for Education, Ruairi Quinn has been making his inaugural speeches to the Teachers Union conferences this week.  Yesterday he spoke at the TUI conference and raised the issue of lesbian and gay teachers and the possible impact of equality legislation protections regarding religious ethos. Before concluding I want to consider one further issue […]

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When you are in a hole stop digging

March 10th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Equality, Irish Politics

On the RTE Radio News at One today when asked about the view that the two female cabinet ministers were given stereotypically female posts Ruairi Quinn said. This is one of those kind of questions that you can’t win either way.  Women know more about children because they spend more time with them. I rest […]

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Brian Cowen’s Statement in the National Interest

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, Recession

The sound is a teeny bit out but if you want to catch our sombre/edgy Taoiseach’s statement on Expenditure Control and Economic Strategy I had a go at uploading the file I was sent today. (Next step will be recording live output online, never did I think I’d be interested but in the national interest […]

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