Bicycles as tools of liberation. Why did you focus on bike riding? It’s kind of cliche, but it’s really important for a woman to be able to get somewhere without a male’s help. There are so many girls in Afghanistan who can’t afford to drive to school so they walk for hours. But they […]
This looks great: http://irishcycle.com/2015/06/10/public-imput-wanted-on-major-dublin-city-centre-transport-plan/ Especially the bit about D’Olier street.
Five great tips to help introverts survive in an open plan office: http://www.quietrev.com/5-ways-to-love-your-office/ Well worth trying a few, open plan offices are basically hellish for introverts. All that activity and half heard conversations are basically draining your ‘social’ reserves. Oh, for an office!
Fascinating read in The Atlantic. Patagonia as a company has tried hard to remove exploitation from it’s supplier chain, but in 2011 they decided to investigate deeper, beyond the usual first-tier direct suppliers, into their second level, and they found abuses of labour laws and unethical practices in their sub-suppliers that they are now aiming to […]
"Hello, my name is Mr. Rettalb, and I would like to stand for president of FIFA." pic.twitter.com/oI2cLJ7Tdi — Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) June 2, 2015 My favourite Sepp Blatter tweet of the evening. “Sepp Blatter to resign” (rte.ie)
Fintan O’Toole in the Times: ‘I don’t know what the definition of public interest is.” Thus said Alan Dukes, former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank/IBRC on Morning Ireland yesterday. Dukes was appointed as “public interest director” at Anglo in December 2009. Says it all really. The definition of excessive private power is that it ceases […]
Never again do I want to have to politely beg someone for a right I'm not sure I want just to be equal and pretend it's a gift. — Charles (@oscharles) May 21, 2015 Never again do I want to see it constantly be insinuated that I'm less than, or unfit to be around children, […]
Bushra Al-Fusail is a young female photographer who’s pushing one solution to severe petrol shortages caused by the conflict in Yemen: bicycles. “In 2011 when there were fuel shortages we could still find petrol in the black market,” she explains, “but things are so bad right now that we can’t even find a black market.” […]
“We who are parents, brothers and sisters, colleagues and friends of Ireland’s gay citizens, we know how they have suffered because of second class citizenship. This referendum is about them, and them alone. The only children who are certain to be affected by this referendum, are Ireland’s gay children. It is their future that is […]