Why am I doing a radio documentary on the menstrual cycle? This is a question that I have been asking myself since I committed to covering this subject matter in my radio documentary class. If I am honest, I talked… Read More ›
Politics
General Election 2020
A Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes poll put Fianna Fáil on 32% of the vote with Fine Gael behind on just 20% support. The poll of 923 voters, which has a margin of error of 3.3%, also suggested that Sinn Féin… Read More ›
General Election 2020
Yesterday was supposed to cover economic promises by political parties; however, most of the plans won’t be realised until next week read the Irish Times coverage here. You can read here some of the party’s economic manifestos or policy’s they… Read More ›
General Election 2020
A homeless man suffered severe and life-changing injuries when an industrial vehicle with a mechanical arm removed his tent from the banks of the Grand Canal in Dublin during a clean-up operation read more here and this is not the… Read More ›
Understanding Politics: Different types of Democracy
DEMOCRACY: The origin of the word is Greek, meaning “rule by the people”. Aristotle ranked Democracy as the third-best form of government, after aristocracy and monarchy. Democracy is sometimes referred to as “rule of the majority”, Etymological roots of democracy (Greek demos and… Read More ›
Slow news: Irish government announces ‘climate action plan’
The Government plans to “nudge people and businesses to change behavior” in a bid to tackle climate change. Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton described the plan as “ambitious but realistic”. The plan also includes proposals to… Read More ›
Taoiseach announces new Citizen’s Assembly on gender equality
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar announces in a tweet that the government is setting up new Citizen’s Assembly on gender equality, saying that equality for women is moving to slow. Mr. Varadkar set the lofty ambitions high aiming to make ‘Ireland… Read More ›
Progress for equality at a snail’s pace
Recently there have been articles circulating in the main stream media around the fact gender equality is a long way off from what is considered an ideal parity. This was something that I wrote about for a college assignment that… Read More ›
When too much is too much
The news shapes the world around us, there is no denying the power the role of journalism has played in democracies and non-democracies alike and yet the more I read newspapers the less informed I am starting to feel. Recently,… Read More ›
Understanding local elections part 3: Balbriggan by the numbers
Balbriggan 2019 voting by the numbers.
Robert Geoghegan. 