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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie bring you five stories you really should check out by 5pm.
1. #TRANSPLANT: An official HIQA inquiry into the circumstances of how Meadhbh McGivern, 14, was forced to turn down an offer of a liver transplant in London because she couldn’t make it there in time, has established that there were ‘four critical decisions’ which led to the transplant being cancelled. It also noted that there was no central authority charged with organising the transport.
2. #RACE FOR THE ÁRAS: Gay Mitchell has insisted he is not worried by his performance in yesterday’s Red C opinion poll, which put him on 13 per cent of the vote. Speaking on RTÉ Radio earlier, Mitchell also defended his letter seeking clemency for an anti-abortionist prisoner on Death Row in Florida, saying he had written simply because he found the death penalty to be “barbaric”.
3. #PUBLIC TRANSPORT: The long-heralded Metro North and Dart Underground public transport plans for Dublin are expected to be dropped by the Government for cost reasons. Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar will announce next month that the €5 billion projects are to be “deferred”. However, it’s hoped the Luas BXD interconnector between the Green and Red lines will go ahead as planned.
4. #SHANNON AIRPORT: Pentagon documents obtained by RTE have shown that the US military was prepared to withdraw from Shannon Airport in 2003 – but that the Irish government did not want them to do so. A US general said Ireland feared the withdrawal would ’send the wrong message’ in the aftermath of anti-war demonstrations at the airport.
5. #PHOTOSHOP: UK gossip magazine Grazia has admitted it did doctor a photograph of Kate Middleton on her wedding day – but insists that the move, which made the Duchess of Cambridge’s waist shockingly thin, was an error. The mag claims that the front page image was originally doctored to remove Prince William’s arm.
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Historically, it was always considered notable how common it was for Irish women to fight alongside men. This can likely be traced back to Brehon Law attitudes that tended to hold women in equal regard to men in Ireland since time immemorial. Then the Catholic Church entered the frame and 3,500 years of equality unravelled in a matter of months, but Irish attitudes often remained.
It took Ireland centuries to convert, and even so they were not Catholic.
Catholicism came with the Normans in 1169. In fact, it was a large part of their casus belli that the Irish were part of the “Celtic Church”, and needed to be brought under the fold.
What also remains is the blaming of the Catholic Church for everything….. probably from British rule and people’s slavish deference to their media.
Firstly, no Catholic Church, early Christian Church conversion.
Secondly, same in rest of the world.
Thirdly, people choose to treat women in a certain way. Men chose wrong here for decades.
Fourthly, Ireland is one of the best countries to be a woman in, according to the Oecd.
A lot of the women and men of the 1916-1921 period were ignored by our governments for years.
The only people who turned up at 1916 commomerations were overweight special branchers with handicams filming “republicans” while junkies were injecting themselves and harrassing people.
Way to go.
First comment turns the forum into a Catholic bashing exercise.
I’m actually with Oran on this one. It was the industrial revolution that fixed the ideas on women that we have. The Church only provided a mechanism, as it did everywhere, Catholic or not.
Liam knew once he bashed the Catholic Church, even though he was wrong, he was bound to get green thumbs…
@liam. What you say is true. De Valera even had our fighting women air-brushed from photographs. Hardly surprising – Sure didn’t he allow McQuaid to dictate our constitution & enslaved us into the Catholic Church to replace Britain.
Oran, I think it’s fair to say that the Catholic church did nothing to rectify the inequality for many centuries, and continues in that fine tradition today. So you can call it bashing if you like, but at best they’re collaborators with a bad culture, but we all know they helped to keep women in their supposed place.
@declan madsen – The Catholic Church kept everyone in their place. All children were intimidated by Catholicism from an early age & most up to 20yrs ago, in their adulthood as well.
We could do with a few of these determined women about the place today.
Great idea, but sorry to see their partners unrecognised when they served side by side. Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine Ffrench-Mullen and Elizabeth O’Farrell and Shelia (Julia) Grennan – “Eirebrushed” our play on 1916 lesbian and gay heroes is on in Players Theatre TCD May 2-7th 730pm http://www.gaytheatre.ie
Specifying some theatre as “gay” seems superfluous; wouldn’t “straight theatre” be more unusual and unique realistically?
Happily not just as Irish or American is equally valid. It’s our 13th season heading past 3500 performances and companies from 5 continents who see its relevance, importance and artistic identity. Pop along in May!
Here’s why you’ll see these women on buses all over Ireland
(but you won’t see them underneath them)
Trying too hard Oran. Show some respect
It’s not doing Anything for Anybody. What’s the Point. Surely we can invest money in things for people.
I’d recognise David Rooneys artwork anywhere. Stunning as always.
Pearce was a woman
Mná na hÉireann…like omg lol
See the pols where around in 1916 too
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