Replacing the panes
Tom Kelly looks at the role and challenges of women in Ulster politics.
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What Ireland did right (and what it needs to do)…
It is difficult to believe now that one country recently sent 19 delegations to Ireland to study how well our economy was managed. The revelation that our model of economic management featured positively in political and economic discussion in countries including Estonia, Greece and Scotland may also come as a surprise. As we survey the [...] read our review »
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Sunday Supplement
It being Sunday, we’ve all got time to consider and ponder things at greater length than during the working week, yes? If it’s good enough for the Sunday papers, it’s good enough for this guest blogger. So here’s the review section… Actually, it’s my introduction to a book published last year, Goin’ Down Slow: selected [...] read our review » -
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 »
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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?