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Sticks and stones
“Sure you know what I mean…” The call to complicity is one we hear all the time. It’s the stock response from anyone called out on discrimination, and it’s all too easy to just nod along and mumble...
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The Rwandan genocide
As the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide approaches, the country’s President Paul Kagame is on a tour of Europe commemorating what is known as Kwibuka 20. Since 1994, Rwanda has been...
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Mapping the gender gap
The World Gender Gap Report 2014 has been released today. Here’s a very nifty map of the report showing where the biggest disparities exist and also mapping progress over time using the slider. Rwanda...
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I don’t normally do this, but… 2015… what’s the plan?
I don’t normally do very personal blog posts here, but quite a bit of my op/ed stuff over the past year related to personal experiences, so I feel I should bring it all together a bit here. It’s late...
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Rwanda's women working together (or, everyone's got a Bono story)
Women’s empowerment in Rwanda is crossing the boundaries of ethnicity, class, education, geography and even wellness. Yesterday, we met Yvonne Mutakwasuku, the mayor of a district called Muhanga just...
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Was it for this?
When Constance Markievicz made history as the first woman in the British Isles to be elected a Member of Parliament, it must have been an epic moment. 100 years ago next year, (some) women across the...
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Our health system is held together with sellotape
The unspeakably tragic death of Marie Downey and her newborn son Daragh in Cork University Maternity Hospital this week has yet again thrown under the spotlight the appalling resourcing of our health...
View ArticleHope at last on climate action?
Ireland is not usually at the top of the league tables when it comes to environmentalism. In fact, we are regularly close to the bottom among our peers. We miss emissions targets, recycling targets,...
View ArticleMen are parents too!
We live in an age of unprecedented equality between parents, but, almost three years in, I can confirm that it’s news to many people that men can be parents too. Many of my female friends out-earn...
View ArticleWhataboutery
What about the homeless? I’ve always had an issue with whataboutery. Urbandictionary.com defines “whataboutism”, or whataboutery, as “when you deflect criticism by pointing out flaws in your opponent,...
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