“If my mammy was alive, she’d be dancing in the streets.” So said a woman who grew up in Republican West Belfast to me earlier today on hearing the news that the Reverend Ian Paisley had died. “It’s very sad”,…

The outcome of a Parades Commission decision regarding an application for a “religious service” to walk past Ardoyne shops to commemorate the Ulster Covenant could have “serious implications” for politics, policing and parades, Vixens has learned. The Commission are to…

    Women, Political Parties and Candidate Selection in Northern Ireland   Claire McGing, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, County Kildare, claire.mcging@nuim.ie   The Assembly and Executive Review Committee at the Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly has begun a review of…

    1965 wasn’t a great year. I got awful results in my Senior Certificate. The equivalent of GCSE. It was decided I would repeat some of the subjects to try and improve my marks. So it was with a…

Vixens has learned that some of the threats to individuals named in recent months on the internet in connection to the satirical site LADFLEG has culminated in police complaints, with some of the worst online posters due to be questioned…

The Child Maintenance Service has been criticised by leading charities, following their announcement to collect money off parents using the scheme.   Gingerbread, a charity set up to help single parents, stated: “Gingerbread believes it’s wrong to charge single parents…

The predominately male Pro Life Group which sits in the North’s Stormont Assembly, were offered “advice and intelligence” on the Family Planning Association, in a meeting in 2012, Vixens has learned.  A member from the Christian Institute, who was present…

The recent case of a young vulnerable pregnant woman in Ireland, who was raped, requested a termination, assessed as suicidal by a panel following the current law in the country ; and who later went on hunger strike before having her 24 week old baby…

  The recent death of Robin Williams may not have come as a complete surprise. Over the years on his own admission he admitted that he misused drugs and had been fighting depression for most of his life. He had…