march for choice

I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write about women’s rights for this recap. Like, I really tried not to. I lit a candle for the White House WiFi connection to drop and give us all a break from Trump’s tweets. I turned off my Google alerts…

84 Dubland, in which Suzanne and PJ celebrate a sort of anniversary and PJ stuffs his face with chocolate and anything else in reach. This fuels him well for his reaction to the Tom Petty news. In the first episode since the glorious live…

"You're a mutilated man, that's all. Self-mutilation..." - Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage) "A man who gets his dick chopped off is actually inflicting an extraordinary act of violence on himself." - Germaine Greer "Some…

A week and a half ago, I was sitting in a cafe in a whitewashed village in the south of Spain, transcribing a message from a rape survivor through headphones on my phone, wishing as I listened to such harrowing facts that I’d ordered the…

Hi Ronan, Dignity. Restraint. The All-Ireland football final of 1982. These are indeed the factors relevant to a conversation about women’s healthcare in Ireland. I applaud you for their inclusion in your recent article in the Sunday …

Television and cinema deals with every subject, including the untouchable – presenting fictionalised reflections of people’s real lives. In Ireland, our consumption has been heavily weighted to American output – we absorb their television…

It’s a few years since anyone was burnt at the stake in Ireland. There was that poor woman who haunts half the properties in Kilkenny, but since she went up in flames, you’re not really supposed to do witch hunts anymore. We’re much more…

Gardaí have not provided an official estimate as to the amount of people who marched for choice over the weekend, but according to some of the force, and many who took part, the numbers ran well into the thousands. Organised by the Abortion…

Lots and lots of stuff happened this week. I wrote about some of them already, but I'm going to write about them again and include some tweets too because they were pretty important, and also funny. The important one was the Shout Your…

This week, #ShoutYourAbortion dominated Twitter’s trending topics. Amelia Bonow started the hashtag when she heard that the United States’ House of Representatives voted to stop funding Planned Parenthood for one year. She took to Facebook…