Culture
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Feminists must extend the definition of family to include gay and straight, single-parent and extended families; and embrace paternity leave Article by Ivana Bacik Feminist campaigns for women’s rights – for equality in law, for access to affordable childcare, for reproductive rights – should encompass a campaign for paternity leave. After all, feminism is about […]
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Punk is alive in the mouths of the scowling aged Article by Michael Mary Murphy The London Olympic Opening Ceremonies featured the sounds of the Clash, the Jam and heaven forfend, the Sex Pistols. The hockey games were preceded by the sounds of ‘London Calling’. With its lyrics of nuclear destruction, famine and a visit […]
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Dublin Theatre Festival, 27 September-14th October – Lorraine Courtney
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Stuck in the sticks – Shirley Clerkin
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Punk is alive in the mouths of the scowling aged – Michael Mary Murphy
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Ireland’s controlled and framed Constitutional Convention shows that democracy here is still a joke Article by Niall Crowley Three years ago a tiring joke was doing the rounds as to the difference between Iceland and Ireland. Ultimately it turned out to be no joke. Now to one letter and a half-year another difference has added […]
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Make eating beef taboo again
An environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like a philanthopist who doesn’t happen to give to charity