Columns - Irish Examiner

Victoria White

Victor Stevenson's memorial is justice for Westbank Orphanage survivors

Why did the primary schools accept that the Westbank children all had the surname, ‘Mathers’? asks Victoria White

Thu, 26 May, 2016

Retail has to take responsibility if we are paying to recycle its waste

The EU’s latest Packaging Waste Directive is all about consumer recycling rather than stopping the waste at source, writes Victoria White

Thu, 19 May, 2016

Trade deals behind closed doors are a threat to our democracy

We’re used to hearing Big Brother conspiracy theories from the Trotskyite with the staring eyes in the corner of the pub. But when people like the doyenne of Irish cooking, Darina Allen, are talking about “a threat to democracy” it’s time to sit up, says Victoria White.

Thu, 12 May, 2016

Institutional sexism is still wholly dominant in our maternity services

Maternity care won’t change in this country until it is labouring women themselves who dictate the terms, writes Victoria White

Thu, 05 May, 2016

Water charges imperative if we are going to deplete our natural capital

I’m the eejit who bought the water harvester, a gigantic yoke sitting in the back garden looking like it’s an oil tank, writes Victoria White

Thu, 28 Apr, 2016

Men ‘shanghaied’ as women at heart of 1916 play ‘Plough and the Stars’

The struggle for the birth of a child is the work of love while armed struggle for the birth of a nation state is the work of hate, writes Victoria White

Thu, 21 Apr, 2016

Rigidly unwilling to compromise, Micheál Martin has failed as a statesman

I AM disgusted with Fianna Fáil. I have always respected Micheál Martin, but his knee-jerk rejection of Fine Gael’s grand coalition offer, last week, left a sick feeling, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 14 Apr, 2016

Three emergency doctors serving one million people is heart-stopping

If two former health ministers like Varadkar and Martin can’t knock their heads together across the negotiating table and sort our health system in 2016 we have no right to call ourselves developed, democratic or free, writes Victoria White

Thu, 07 Apr, 2016