Una Crudden is 60 today. It’s a birthday she didn’t think she would see. Five years ago she was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. She had originally been misdiagnosed. That misdiagnosis meant that by the time her cancer was caught,…
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Her name is Bridget, and shes not “just an alcoholic”.
“I cried when I saw the footage. I am a human being you know.” The poignant words of 23 year old Bridget Mongan, as she explained her hurt at being left in a bus layby by members of the PSNI…
The arrest of Ivor Bell
Vixens has learned that the 77 year old man arrested in Belfast this morning is veteran republican Ivor Bell. Bell, who has been living openly in West Belfast for decades, was taken by the PSNI to Antrim Serious Crime Suite…
Dissidents. People just want to live. Let them.
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…
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…
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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,…
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