Photo owned by Môsieur J. (cc) The blogging year that is (the rest of it was great too!) 252 posts this year which is my busiest blogging year yet since I began in 2005. I thought like loads of others I would post a few links to some highlights in a very rapid recap as [...]
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In the category of ‘look what a useless shower of muppets our government are…’ (Large category I know!) Just before Christmas the UK government announced that they will be fast tracking the roll out of the programme to vaccinate young women between the ages of 12 and 17. The roll out of the programme has [...]
Tags:Cervical cancer·Dawn Primarolo·Her Majesty's Government·Mary Harney·Vaccination
I’ve been busy doing nothing except being a bit ill, not eating a lot and watching Darts and despairing at Israel and the lack of leadership from anywhere else in the world on the situation. Received an interesting comment today on the Equality Authority Issue (which won’t be going away anytime soon!). Look at the [...]
Tags:Board of directors·Cookie Monster·Disability·Equality Authority·Ireland·National Disability Authority
It’s been a funny old week so far with that stuff from the Pope which some say we should ignore or laugh off but I think there are a lot of queers going home for xmas with it ringing in their ears. Today Channel 4 announce their shock jock ‘scoop’ factor for the alternative Christmas [...]
Image via Wikipedia The funeral of Rebecca Hoban took place today. You probably will not hear much about her funeral, there were not hoards of cameras and reporters sitting outside Whitefriar Street Church this morning as her family gathered to remember her. She was not a former Bond girl but she was also killed in [...]
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Only $13.56 (reduced!) from Atlasbooks I don’t think there will be any photos of her stop over in Ireland though
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During the Order of Business in the Seanad this week Senator David Norris has raised issues concerning the resignation of Niall Crowley and cuts faced by the Equality Authority on several occasions. On Friday Senator Norris informed the house that he had been harrassed by a government minister about raising issues concerning matters related to [...]
Tags:David Norris·Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform·Equality Authority·Seanad Eireann
Justice Equality and Law Reform Questions in the Dáil on Thursday afternoon may have passed you by unnoticed – but fear not I am here with the best bit. Deputy Pat Rabbitte versus Minister Dermot Ahern on the matter of the Equality Authority. Watch out for the bit where the Minister nearly gets thrown out of the [...]
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Therese Murphy, a member of the board of the Equality Authority has written to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and tendered her resignation. More on this later.
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Public Servants who are in non-marital relationships and wish to pass their pensions to partners have long complained about futile contributions that they have made to widows and orphans funds only not be able to transfer them to their partners when they die. Former Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy annouced a review of the arrangements in 2004. It [...]
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