Women make the law in Ireland now. The Irish government has nominated Justice Susan Denham as the country’s new chief justice. She is the first woman, and also the first Protestant, to hold the position. Denham, 65, has always been a pioneer in the Irish justice system. The daughter of Douglas Gageby, former editor of ...
If you’re scared of venereal diseases and feel you need extra protection from them on top of what your health center can give you, head over to Duleek, Ireland, this Sunday and where the head of St Vitalis, the patron saint for genital diseases, will be sold at an auction. Lodged in its Queen Anne ...
Finally Ireland is taking a step in the right direction for women’s reproductive rights by selling emergency contraception over-the-counter. Women will have to be interviewed by pharmacy staff in a consultation room before they can get it to ensure they are aware of how to take it and the risks involved. Each pharmacy will be ...
As well as telling the story of Ellen McKinnon and her life as a healer in Ireland, The Bird Woman shows what it would have been like to live there during the time of The Troubles. Ellen does not like having healing hands or being clairvoyant — it scares her and she has grown up ...
The Vatican warned Irish Catholic Bishops not to report suspected cases of pedophilia to the police, according to a letter written in 1997. This was in response to the Irish Church Initiative proposed a year earlier that priests work with the police to help identify child predators, following a public outcry about clergy abuse. The ...
A case that’s been ongoing for five years between Ireland and three women over access to abortion has been brought before the European Court of Human Rights. Although abortion is allowed in Ireland if “a woman’s life is at risk”, in these three cases “Irish restrictions on abortion had stigmatised and humiliated them, risking damage to their health.” ...
Irish abortion laws are “draconian” and breach the human rights of the mother, it has been claimed. Women have been denied abortions even when their own life is at risk and when the health and safety of other children is compromised, and can lead to life imprisonment.
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
