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THE DIFFERENCE IN the amount of money women earn versus that of men is still too large in Ireland and across the European Union, according to Labour MEP Emer Costello.
In an interview with Karen Coleman from radioep.ie today, Costello said the pay gaps of 16 per cent in the European Union at large and of 14 per cent in Ireland are “still unacceptably high”.
“I think what we need to say is that gender equality has always been a core value of the European Union,” she said. “The European Union has, in many ways, done much to advance women’s rights and we cannot let the crisis unravel and roll back on the process that has been made.”
Costello was speaking today after a Eurobarometer report on how women were affected by the crisis was discussed in the European Parliament. The report showed that 38 per cent of Europeans rank the pay gap as the most important gender inequality followed jointly by violence against women and the greater difficulties for women in reconciling their private and working lives.
Almost one in three Europeans said that the crisis has, in particular, worsened the pay gap and 21 per cent said they would like the issue to be tackled as a priority for the next election in 2014.
Listen to Costello’s comments in full here (MP3).
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Boo! – Apple have done away with the Irish cailín (pale skin, red hair) who used to represent many Irish women – now we’ll have to choose between a blonde or a brunette. Bring back the redhead!
Tiocfaidh ar la.
Does that mean that only those people who have installed this will see the new emoji ?
Yes is the answer. This is an Irish flag test:
The flags work as special control letters representing the abbreviation for countries. On Android phones they usually show up as just the control letters, so, as always, an Irish flag can be displayed but only as a blue “IE”, not an actual flag. The system (at least before lollipop, not sure if its changed) never supported the actual flags but would just show the control letters instead.
WhatsApp does that too, but only if it encounters a combination it doesn’t have a flag for.
Any for android?
It just requires characters U+1F1EE and U+1F1EA to be entered in sequence ( a special “I” and a special “E”) but the system won’t display them as a flag. Apple hasn’t really added a new character. Just the ability to correctly recognise the combination.
Android, as of 4.4 anyway, doesn’t display any of these combinations as flags (not even U and S). Just as the control letters that make them up. Applications on android that don’t use the system emojis (WhatsApp and Facebook messenger for instance) may add support sooner, since they both support flags
I like that they’re in the kind of pop up menu thing so you don’t spend ages scrolling. Nice one.
I always thought the Irish flag would be a lot nicer without the orange
Go back to Limerick
The davedunne comment above is not me. It is a dam imposter. I am flattered all the same. I in all honesty don’t give a bollix about flag’s.
The davedunne comment above is not me. It is a dam imposter. I am flattered all the same. I in all honesty don’t give a bollix about flag’s.
Fine gael don’t approve ..
Anyone else not have the option of downloading the new update?
Note to self:
Block Brian Tong
Excited to see the Irish Tricolor being represented.
I would be more excited when my Android Galaxy S6 starts representing my flag!
What kind of phone do you have?
Ireland/…Ivory Coast flag
All I can say is
Noooooo. Fail, all the emojis didn’t show up
What a lot of
Erik just point g out he has the new S6
˙˙˙sᴉɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟᴉ sᴉ ʇI
Why don’t android phones have flag emojis?
Flag on WhatsApp is Ivory Coast not Irish
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