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I’m in an Abusive Relationship with my Country
Dear Ireland, I’m sorry to have to say this but we need to break up. You see I just finished reading this book called “Why Does He Do That? Inside the minds of angry and controlling men” and I now...
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Remembering Savita
Savita Halappanavar died on this day 4 years ago in Galway University Hospital. She died in suffering and in pain, because she was pregnant, having been denied basic medical care she and her husband...
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Citizens’ Assembly Submission
There are over 4,500 submissions to the Citizens’ Assembly. I am worried my story, my voice will be lost in the mass. I want to be heard; I want to be valued. I want to #repealthe8th I am writing to...
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Speaking ill of the living to spare the dead
Peter Mathews was a former Fine Gael TD who was known for waving rosary beads around their parliamentary party meetings and for famously declaring in response to being asked a question regarding...
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I am not a nun, I am a midwife: maternity care in a “modern” Ireland
The author of this guest post wishes to remain anonymous. I attended a protest at the Department of Health yesterday to highlight people’s outrage at the handing over of the new National Maternity...
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How to have an abortion when you’re in Ireland
(A Rough Guide to Ireland – Part 1) So you’re pregnant and you don’t want to be. What next? First things first – commiserations on finding yourself in this situation. It’s shit and it might get a bit...
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Sinn Féin and abortion: time to choose a side
Note: most of this was written on an iPad Mini on an airplane, so please excuse lack of hyperlinks and fadas. It is more than a decade ago, and Dublin Sinn Féin are holding a full members’ meeting to...
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Laying the groundwork with young children to talk to them about choice
I’m sharing this for any other parents of younger children who might find it useful. My 4 year old is OBSESSED with pregnancy at the moment, has been for a good while. Discussions on how to talk to...
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Pregnant Child Detained in Mental Institution For Asking For An Abortion
To access a life saving abortion in Ireland requires 3 medical professionals (two psychiatrists and one obstetrician) to agree that the woman is at risk of taking her own life. As the recent case of a...
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#coponcomrades Revisited: The IT Women’s Podcast
Feminist Ire’s Stephanie Lord and Sinéad Redmond, along with Niamh McDonald and her son Tom, join Kathy Sheridan to discuss the origins of Cop On Comrades, how men can support the feminist struggle,...
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