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Victoria White

Leaders should take a leaf out of Patrick’s shamrock and negotiate

The responsibility of High Chieftains Kenny and Martin is not just to the legacy of the men who died in 1916, it is to at least 1,800 years of slow social progress, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 17 Mar, 2016

Next government will have to deliver on the ‘Youth Guarantee’

As a society we can’t afford to designate the 20s as a second decade of adolescence, writes Victoria White

Thu, 10 Mar, 2016

The new government must not turn its back on care like the last one did

What we need from the next Dáil is an understanding that care is the fundamental work of any society, writes Victoria White

Thu, 03 Mar, 2016

Our attitudes to wasting water and rivers of human waste a dirty shame

It’s hard to escape the conclusion that as a society we have closed our eyes to our own crap, writes Victoria White

Thu, 25 Feb, 2016

Fine Gael would do well to form the coalition staring them in the face

It is a pack of lies to say the current Coalition inherited “a wreck”. And it’s not convincing people, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 18 Feb, 2016

Election promises continue the attack on families with one income

One-earner families enter the top tax bracket at €41,800 while two-income families do so at €65,600, writes Victoria White

Thu, 11 Feb, 2016

€2 an hour for childcare puts parents on a wage of €2 an hour

We haven’t heard a word so far from the Coalition about turning the economy around to value the work of caring for children, writes Victoria White

Thu, 04 Feb, 2016

Women have long fought for this control of their own bodies

THIS is an important day for the women of Ireland, writes Victoria White. We have said we can have babies. Our bodies know how it’s done. We just need a little help and encouragement. And now they’re listening. 

Thu, 28 Jan, 2016

David Bowie’s demise brings baby boomer generation to death row

A GENERATION is waking up to its mortality, writes Victoria White. That’s what’s been happening for the last 10 days as Bowie’s Blackstar reaches No 1 in the US and the UK charts and his tracks are streamed 19m times in the space of a week.

Thu, 21 Jan, 2016

Does it take a starman to remind us of our place on planet Earth?

David Bowie’s Major Tom is an average geezer who loves his wife, a fragile human being in the hands of commercial forces he doesn’t understand, writes Victoria White

Thu, 14 Jan, 2016