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I’M WITH THE IRISH STAND AGAINST TRUMP
If the last couple of months have taught me anything, it is that I am an eternal optimist. To the point of possible stupidity. I wasn’t surprised when Trump won the Presidency and even though I wasn’t at all happy, I comforted myself by thinking that he will be...
Living With Our Ben
Yesterday while clearing our some old files I found this. A cutting of the first piece I ever had published in a National Newspaper. It was from the Sunday Independent in 2002 and is the story of growing up with our Ben. I remember how thrilled I was to have...
Scully’s Christmas Book suggestions
Just before Christmas I did my usual Christmas Irish Non-fiction book suggestion on Ireland AM on TV3. In case you are using up book token presents or just want to treat yourself to a nice book here are this year’s suggestions: WHAT IF…. A Chronicle of What...
THE PERFECT PACKAGE…apparently
Raising kids is not a job for the faint-hearted. Babies and toddlers are a lot of physical work but parenting teenagers would melt the most robust brain. They say girls are harder to raise than boys. I wouldn’t know. I only have girls. Two of them teenagers. But I...
#wherearethewomen
As some of you might know I have been very exercised by the lack of women guests on Ireland's premier entertainment and chat show, The Late Late Show, since it began this seasons run in September. I have been tweeting about it most Fridays using the hashtag...
AHAKISTA DREAMING
The opportunity to hear feminist legend Gloria Steinem was the magnet that drew me to West Cork. As soon as news broke about her coming to Bantry as part of the West Cork Literary Festival I was online booking my ticket. It was going to be a long drive for a quick...
Exams, Kittens and Epic Ireland
I recently found myself getting broody. Not for another baby – oh no – but for a little ball of madness that is most kittens. Around the same time the stress levels in the house were noticeably heightened due to Junior Cert and fifth year house exams. There was a...
“Having it all” – response to Niamh Horan
I will say one thing for Niamh Horan, she’s brave. Having sent Twitter into meltdown two weeks on Brendan O Connor’s The Cutting Edge on RTE One, she continued on her theme of women not ‘being able to have it all’ in the following week’s Sunday Independent. But...
Census, Religion & Magdalenes
Every year, on the Sunday before International Women’s Day, the public are encouraged to place flowers on the graves of ‘Magdalene’s’ – so called fallen women, ‘unmarried mothers’ who were placed in laundries run by the church. I recently discovered that there had...
Women In Media
This Friday I will throw a bag in the car and set off to the south west of the country, to Ballybunion to attend the annual Women In Media event which is run by Joan O Connor of Kilcooley's Country House Hotel. It is a great weekend for anyone with an interest in...
Misogyny at work on the Twitter machine after Michaella’s interview
Every year thousands of Irish parents wave off their precious darlings as they indulge in what is now a kind of ‘rite of passage’ (and not a hugely useful one, in my opinion) - the 6th Year Holiday. Our teens travel in packs, descending like a flock of over excited...
When Home Is A Dangerous Place
Waking up on a spring morning to the news of a bomb in Brussels airport was a deeply unnerving experience. As I scanned up and down Twitter for more information I experienced that now familiar feeling of dread, sensing that this would not be the only attack on...
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