newsAction needed on gender equality says UCC historianDespite laws aimed at improving gender equality being introduced 100 years ago, the pace of progress has been slow, and action is needed now, not words, a historian has said.
generalBook review: Irish Education, 1922-2007 Cherishing All The Children?The education of Ireland’s greatest resource, its children, was entrusted to the Catholic Church by figures as enlightened as Daniel O’Connell. Ryle Dwyer wonders why its hierarchy proved to be so hostile to their welfare.
businessRebel Eoin MacNeill gave last coin to singer en route to prisonThe last farthing in Irish Volunteers chief of staff Eoin MacNeill’s pocket when he was imprisoned after the Rising could be lying in a British Army grave in France.