Replacing the panes
Tom Kelly looks at the role and challenges of women in Ulster politics.
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Douglas Murray – Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry, Book Review
The aftermath of the Saville Inquiry into the events around Bloody Sunday has left me, and I suspect many others, with one enduring image: Prime Minister David Cameron’s apology in the House of Commons, where he says that the actions of the British Army were ‘unjustified and unjustifiable.’ But there’s a lot more to the [...] read our review » -
Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
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John Laird for Christmas?
John Laird (Lord Laird of Artigarvan) is unionism’s jester. His memoir A Struggle To Be Heard ” by a True Ulster Liberal” (from Slugger’s shop on Amazon here) might serve more as a heavy stocking filler than anybody’s idea of a main present. In it he wears the masks of comedy and tragedy to turn the [...] read our review »
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I think you mean Northern Ireland politics, fair_deal. Tom didn’t say anything about Donegal, Cavan or Monaghan.
i didn’t hear him ‘say’ anything at all…
just if we’re being so detailed….
Nor did he ‘look’ at anything either, of course (as fair_deal said in his intro). I guess he wrote about the role and challenges of women in politics in general, with a particular reference to Northern Ireland.
‘Are men exempt from their parental responsibilities when they get a serious job?’ The consensus seems to be ‘yes’, but the problem isn’t confined to ‘serious’ jobs like elected ones, or even to men with jobs at all – I can count on one hand, with fingers to spare, the number of fathers I know who are responsible for half the childcare. I keep hearing women talk about men ‘babysitting’, as well, when the babies they’re looking after are their own.
Was i hearing things on Friday on Evening Extra? I thought i heard the DARD Minister responding to claims from the UFU President that she was not doing her job properly due to her pregnancy. Surely if he had said such a thing there would have been a proper outcry?