I had intended to write a light hearted blog piece tonight. However, as I type, a blast bomb has been thrown, presumably by dissident republicans, at a police car, just off the Whiterock Area of West Belfast. Another booby trap…
Yearly Archives: 2014
If the journalism ladder is broken, carve your own rung. Lyra Mc Kee.
Nearly two years ago, I received a tip. 31 years previous, a local politician, Robert Bradford, was murdered. It happened in 1981, a bloody and tumultuous year in Northern Irish politics. It seemed inevitable that the IRA would eventually kill…
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RAISING ‘GOOD CATHOLIC CHILDREN’ AS A SELF CONFESSED HEATHEN. Deborah Crawley
I was born into a catholic family and raised with catholic beliefs, I went to a primary school with a strong catholic ethos and then on to a convent girl’s school for secondary education. I learned at a very young…
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Women are born equal but everywhere they are in chains: Adapted from Rousseau.
I’ve been a feminist for as long as I can remember. I was a feminist before I was aware there was such a thing as feminism. My awareness of the subjection of women to man’s laws began at a very…
Feminists give feminism a bad name.
As a thirty something woman in Ireland, I think I have it good. I come from a family in which the matriarchs rule the roost, and I’ve unconsciously carried on that tradition. Up until this week, I’d considered myself a…
We need to look at the past through a gendered lens. (Andree Murphy)
Tonight’s blog piece is written by Andree Murphy, Deputy Director of “Relatives for Justice.” Andree has worked on behalf of victims for many years, and examines why in dealing with conflict, we need to look at issues encountered by women as…
Tagged with: conflict, gender based violence, haass, relatives for justice, un1325, victims, women
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
This morning, on BBC’s Radio Ulster’s Talkback programme, I listened to yesterday’s Vixen blog writer, Julie Hambleton give an honest and moving interview in which she talked about her experience of fighting for justice on behalf of her sister, Maxine,…
Justice 4 the 21 “Their silence and inaction is insulting”
On 21 November 1974 our beloved sister, Maxine, who was aged just 18, went out to meet some friends to hand out some party invitations at a local pub in Birmingham. 15 minutes after entering the pub she had been…
Tagged with: Government, John Spellar, Justice Minister Jeremy Wright, UK Government, West Midlands Police, Yvette Cooper
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Private : Internal Sinn Féin Minutes. Adams “I wish it would all go away”.
Today Vixens asked Gerry Adams TD on #AskAdams with @impartialrep, whether he had ever wished the Abortion discussion within his party would go away. While he did answer, he didn’t address the content of the question. His answer was that…
Questions to be asked about OTR’s
Areas that in our opinion the media should be scrutinising regarding “On the Runs” 1. When the Police were looking at the lists of OTR’s, dd they do a full criminal record check on the names on the list provided…
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Vixens With Convictions! 