This Friday sees two events taking place in Dublin which show the rise of lesbian and gay sports organising in Ireland. The first is the launch this Friday (Dec. 1) of a fundraising calender by the Phoenix Tigers – the only lesbian/gay woman’s football team in Dublin. Half of the proceeds of this calender go [...]
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So that means the Cabinet are due today to talk about cohabitee’s rights and same sex marriage. Cue lots of crap about equality but no commitments and FF and PD’s speaking out of both sides of their mouths. They won’t be alone in party political terms either. More on Maman Poulet as it happens. Update [...]
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I really hope that the students taking the Multimedia Degree in Tipperary Institute are getting some guidance on diversity and incitement to hatred. Output from these students taking the PR module part of this degree can be heard in podcasts from podcasting.ie I listen to most of these podcasts, (Entitled Educasts) they are a trial at [...]
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Dear O2 Your website is absolute rubbish. It has been absolute rubbish for years. 250 free texts a month my arse. It has always been designed to deter people from using it. The site is frequently down, being upgraded or telling me I am using an old browser. Well I am using Firefox 2.0 and [...]
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Fair Play to Twenty A man in modern Ireland striving to make a difference, struggling against the machinations of a divided society. Divided into those who have the vision and those, like Stevie Wonder and Bertie Ahern, who don’t. From the acceptance speech that Tom Raftery sadly never got to make on behalf of Twenty Major [...]
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Tim O’Malley seems to be following the line well trodden by junior health ministers in being insensitive regarding Mental health. Jim McDaid did it when he called those who commit suicide selfish. O’Malley seems to have done the same by telling the Irish Medical News There’s a very strong view with a lot of people [...]
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I’m in ‘Maman Poulet needs a job’ mode at the moment – various job interviews, sweaty palms, new suits, big smiles, crap answers to questions, finding out there will be second interviews, sweating over the weekend waiting to hear, drafting yet another CV and letter of application. And then there is the ‘if I mention [...]
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Women’s Aid have taken to blogging to highlight the forthcoming 16 Days of Action opposing violence against women campaign which runs from 25th November to 10th December 2006. The site is designed to be an ongoing way of gathering information on what is happening running up to and during the 16 days this year. Anyone [...]
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Save Britney’s Marriage Why do Black people never win Reality TV Shows? A Woman Politician Blogs – Welcome to the Blogosphere, Councillor Phil Prendergast. And I think a new Irish political term has been launched – Doing a ‘Dominic’!!!! Air guitarists may no longer be playing just air. Damm technology…
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I wasn’t going to write this post so soon but as I mentioned yesterday there seems to be a ‘problem’ with lots of closeted gay people at the upper echelons of the Republican Party. I say ‘problem’ because several groupings see it as a problem. Firstly we have the evangelicals who are reeling at the [...]
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