It’s been more than 100 years since the world began observing International Women’s Day, and yet no country has achieved full gender equality. “It’s very sobering to realize that it’s 2016 and we don’t have that yet,” said Daniela Ligiero, Vice President of Girls and Women Strategy at the United Nations Foundation. Source: Gender equality? […]
Outside, workmen were building a new entrance at a blocked-up archway. “What are they doing exactly?” inquired someone. “Widening it for Micheál’s head,” sniffed a Fine Gael TD. Delightful as always, more here.
Hmmm, good if you’re expecting, bad if you’re sick or laid off: Ireland offers the second longest maternity leave in Europe but comes last in terms of pay entitlements, according to a new survey.According to the study, which covers 15 European countries and also the United States, Ireland comes second behind the United Kingdom in […]
Great story about the dying profession that is journalism. So many older, experienced, journalists have been let go in the US that newsrooms are suffering from it. Sample: He’s 57 and worked for a 20,000-circulation daily in the Midwest for over 30 years. He was bought out last summer; over a quarter of the reporters, […]
This: So ‘mass cycling’ simply means that everyone has the option to cycle, for any given trip, in much the same way that walking, driving and public transport are already available. It is about having transport choice; a better range of transport options to pick from. I think this is often lost in debates about cycling, particularly in the […]
What I find most odd about the age we live in is that even though fear is the predominant emotion, people still take the relative peace and prosperity we have in this continent for granted and thus tend to discount just how large a part the EU plays in all that. Despite fearing change enough […]
Interesting observations in the age of the drones. All declared threats to Britain tend to come either from powers with no conceivable designs on conquering Britain or from forces immune to deterrence. Nor has anyone explained why, if Trident is so vital to Britain’s safety, that is not true for the 25 non-nuclear Nato states, […]
