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Dearbhail Mcdonald

Dearbhail Mcdonald

The Guardian

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After the no-no vote, Irish women are stuck with a sexist constitution. Let’s use it

For years, Ireland has prided itself on the determination of its voters to extract themselves from a constitutional straitjacket of Catholic social...

12.03.2024 10

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Dearbhail Mcdonald

Ireland’s women need equality – not tokenistic referendums or panic about throuples

When Irish citizens became the first in the world to vote for same-sex marriage in 2015, the constitutional referendum was accompanied by a grassroots...

21.02.2024 20

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Dearbhail Mcdonald

Ireland’s last nuns are dying out. Can we condemn their abuses – and admit the good they did too?

The 1990s witnessed the collision of three tectonic plates that are still shaping the course of Irish history: the Celtic Tiger, the peace process and...

15.01.2024 70

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