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Interview – Equality Budgeting Campaign
The Equality Budgeting Campaign is a new campaign that emphasizes and encourages equality in policies concerning public expenditure and income. With Budget 2013 coming out soon the relevance of the...
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Irish Prime Minister was right not to apologise the first time around
Last week the Republic of Ireland’s Prime Minister, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, gave a full, comprehensive and heartwarming apology to the women of the Magdalene laundries. These women, who since the...
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Fitzgerald addresses bullying online – Clondalkin news
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald last week organised two talks on cyber bullying in Lucan and Clondalkin, respectively. Primarily information nights for teachers, parents and...
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Abortion: Have All These Protests and Rallies Affected Change Where It Matters?
Abortion legislation for Ireland Yesterday I attended a pro-abortion rally outside City Hall in Dublin. A handful of speakers and a few hundred people or so (I’m bad at guestimating, so I could be...
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Cycling is different in Strasbourg
I don’t own a Vélhop, but I was very close to renting one. So so pretty. Instead, I rented a bicycle from work and I love it. Being ‘friendly’ matters It’s a great shame cycling isn’t bigger in...
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Debating for the sport of it
This week I’m in Latvia taking part in #MMC13, a summer camp focusing on multimedia and new ways to create stories online. I heard about it from the Forum for European Journalism Students (FEJS). In...
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The job interview
On deciding to remain in Ireland for this year, I have one thing to do: get practical news writing experience. One of my fondest moments of 2013 was sitting across from five major individuals on the...
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A cyclist’s lost confidence
Bought a new bicycle, but I’m afraid to use it for fear of dying or it getting stolen. Advice welcome. I bought a bicycle recently and I haven’t really used it since the purchase. The weather hasn’t...
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The next European Commission president will reflect your vote
A report voted on by the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament yesterday (11 Feb) urged the European Council to take your votes in account. IN JUST UNDER 100 days the Irish and...
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We didn’t care about women then and we don’t care now
A meagre 100-plus people turned up to SAFE Ireland’s domestic violence report launch on Tuesday – for Just One Day, could we not have had more there for support? The organisation published the results...
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