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Via AFP and Richard Chambers
Needs more Bernard Lynch.
Scenes outside the Dail last night following Enda Kenny’s apology on behalf of the state to the women that worked in the Magdalene Laundries.
Earlier: ‘I, As Taoiseach…Deeply Regret And Apologise Unreservedly To All Those Women’
From top: Angela Downey, whose mother was a survivor from Good Shepherd; Gabrielle O’Gorman, who was incarcerated at the Sean MacDermott magdalen laundry, escaped but subsequently caught and then brought to another laundry in Limerick; Maureen Sullivan, and sisters Mary McManus and Kathleen Jannette, who were in Stanhope Street; Marina Gambold, Maureen Sullivan, Mary McManus, Kathleen Jannette, Steven O’Riordan, Geraldine Cronin and Julie McClure; Diane Croghan, Josephine Meade, Mary Smith and Kathleen Jannette; Mary McManus and Maureen Sullivan and Mary McManus, left, and Kathleen Jannette.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall)
Women do just as well as men whey they on ticket, there is NO voter bias says Gail McElroy #ccven
— Jane Suiter (@JaneSuit) February 16, 2013
Political scientist Jane Suiter quotes Trinity College Dublin political scientist Dr Gail McElroy from the Constitutional Convention in the Grand Hotel, Malahide, Co Dublin, this afternoon.
Read more of Dr McElroy’s media myth-busting research on female representation in Irish politics here.
It includes some nice easy-to-read statistical analysis, like this:
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8xPjPeW05U
‘Women Drivers, women drivers,
they’re every bit as good as you and me’
Women Drivers by Noel Sweeney.
Anita Guidera writes:
Noel is a well known driving instructor in Co Donegal who uses his passion for country and western singing to create instruction videos for learner drivers. But has Noel Sweeney gone too far this time? YOU decide!
The photograph of the four calm, young women on this [Irish Times cover] page tells us little of what had gone before…Only hours before, each was still deciding whether to appear in this picture.
In the end, they did it because they want people to see how ordinary they are…Their sole bond was the fact that each had had a pregnancy in which the baby was diagnosed with “an abnormality incompatible with life”, and that each had “travelled” to have that pregnancy terminated.
‘I Believe In A Loving God And That I Won’t Be Damned For What I Did’ (Kathy Sheridan, Carl O’Brien, Irish Times)
Of this common movie poster device (click to enlarge), Christophe Courtois, who spends a lot of time cross-referencing such things, sez:
The process is obviously to deprive the viewer of a face that would look natural, to direct their attention to another detail (a costume, posture, hand, breast …): the manipulation is actually quite sexist , but quite effective. Only the world-famous actresses, will be readily understood and escape the guillotine.