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Oireachtas women, top from left: Niamh Bhreathnach, Ivana Bacik, Justice Catherine McGuinness, Liz O’Donnell and Gemma Hussey with a photograph taken in 2008 of all former and then current woman TDs and Senators in the Dail chamber  (to mark the first vote for women).

Update: An earlier version of this post headlined ‘Bitches Be Trippin’ (see comments) upset and offended many. We are sorry.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration being grilled earlier by the Oireachtas Joint sub-Committee on Global Taxation.

Will a man ever be allowed to do his job and not be judged by his looks?

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William Binchy (top with Senator Ronan Mullen in background)) and Catherine McGuinness (above) at the Oireachtas hearings on abortion legislation.

She’s 91.

(RTE)

BKus0JCCUAIRwkG20/03/2013. New Suicide Research Report Reveals th By highlighting suicide in abortion legislation is the state legitimising it?

HE (above) decided,

University College Dublin professor of psychiatry Kevin Malone  in a letter (top) to Jerry Buttimer TD [who is chairing the Oireachtas hearings on the matter] suggests:

Such legislation could accelerate suicide rates in younger men in Ireland (where the real problem lies).

 

Anyone?

Abortion legislation ‘could place young men at risk’ (Michael O’Regan / Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times)

Via: Jillian van Turnhout

(Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland)

Bullying in the Oireachtas? Sexism in Fine Gael? Say it ain’t so, girl…

“As a TD in the Oireachtas before the last election, I found that period really difficult. There certainly is a lot of latent bullying that goes on and there certainly is a lot of culture that is really quite toxic.”

The 32 year old said she was now treated differently because she was a minister. But when asked to clarify what she meant by toxic culture, she added: “Sometimes it’s difficult to define, there’s the lovely girl syndrome ‘ah sure, she would say that, wouldn’t she’, this sort of attitude.

“I would say it’s there in our parliamentary party, in Fine Gael it’s there, all the political parties where women just aren’t necessarily treated in the same way or with the same degree of respect as men.”

In other news: sky appears blue, oceans thought to contain water, moon orbits earth.

Creighton Exposes Toxic Dail Culture (Examiner)

(Photocall Ireland)