Strippers, Sexism and Safe Spaces on Campus
In the wake of NUI Maynooth’s recent stripper incident, Pádraig McCarrick talks about what it means for 3rd level institutions as safe spaces. There was an extra …
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NUIG: Vote NO to Keep Our Union Pro-Choice
This week students in NUIG are being asked to vote on whether their union’s pro-choice position should be repealed. Sarah McCarthy writes on why students …
Re(al)-Productive Health: Learning from real experiences – demanding real action
– Aoife Campbell writes about a new campaign launched today which aims to improve accessibility to the Morning After Pill in Ireland. The debate surrounding …
“Anti-woman, Anti-gay ‘pro-life’ bigots go away!”
Tomás Heneghan, a student from UL and member of Galway Pro-Choice shares his experience of the march on Youth Defence’s office…..originally posted here. I’m thinking I’ll …
‘Women Working? We Can’t Have That!’
Sarah McCarthy writes about the scandal that has raged this week about banks possibly forcing parents to give up their jobs. There has been a …
‘Are ya well?’
Fiona Dunkin makes her debut for the blog with a feature on the nasty prevalence of street harassment in Irish society. This piece originally appeared here in the College …
Gilmore Declines to Dine with Bigots; Everyone Thinks He’s God’s Gift to Women
– Sarah McCarthy writes about Eamon Gilmore’s recent refusal to attend an males-only dinner in the US. On his St. Patrick’s Day trip to the …
The X Case: an Entire Generation of Failure
– Sarah McCarthy writes about that momentous moment in Ireland’s abortion history. Twenty-one years ago, this cartoon appeared on the front page of the Irish …