Person: Joyce Fegan

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Joyce Fegan
Joyce Fegan: Sports Illustrated is not radical, but Cork’s Siobhán McSweeney is
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Joyce Fegan: The role of domestic abuse in Ireland’s 'vanishing' women
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 Joyce Fegan: Maternal mental health is not solely a mother’s issue — it's about all of us
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Joyce Fegan: Ann Lovett’s story finally gets big screen treatment
Joyce Fegan: The TikTok 'tradwife' trend — a solution for stressed-out families?
Joyce Fegan: The TikTok 'tradwife' trend — a solution for stressed-out families?
"We do not value care work. People talk about the 'system being broken', but the system was never fixed in the first place. The career-care conundrum exists because the workplace is designed for you to work like you do not have a family, and raise a family like you don't work"

Fri, 21 Apr, 2023

Brooke Shields
Joyce Fegan: The sobering reality of the Brooke Shields documentary in 2023
We could all sit back and watch in shock and horror at the global sexual objectification and commodification of this child 40-odd years ago, were so much of the sentiment that drove her stardom not still around in our air and culture today

Fri, 14 Apr, 2023

The Irish Famine, 1845-1849, (1900).
Joyce Fegan: Action needed over petty wars of words in housing
'It's some trajectory, to go from no homeless families in 2012, to where we now find ourselves in 2023'

Fri, 07 Apr, 2023

Joyce Fegan: We need to send out the message of zero-tolerance towards racism
Joyce Fegan: We need to send out the message of zero-tolerance towards racism
'Social media, where this extreme rhetoric so often begins and festers, is not a place that exactly incubates a sense of shared humanity'

Fri, 31 Mar, 2023

Joyce Fegan: For some, Ireland is not a safe place. Are we OK with that?
Joyce Fegan: For some, Ireland is not a safe place. Are we OK with that?
Punching down on the far less powerful in our society, does nothing to hold those with actual legislative power to account

Sat, 25 Mar, 2023

10th anniversary of The Good Friday Agreement
S Joyce Fegan: How would Good Friday Agreement's architects have navigated Twitter?
Twenty five years on, one can only wonder how the Good Friday Agreement would have worked out in today’s world of cyber arguments, where a flash-in-the-pan comment can rupture relations in an instant and further entrench opposing views

Fri, 17 Mar, 2023

Delegates to First International Congress of Working Women
Joyce Fegan: Meaningful actions matter far more than temporary tokenism
'Rights are rarely freely given, but instead requested, demanded and then fought for until finally won — and feminism, to which International Women's Day currently belongs, is often the vehicle'

Fri, 03 Mar, 2023

Andrew Tate
Joyce Fegan: The problem is not Andrew Tate alone — society plays a part too
“Our systems and society allowed this man and his views to flourish. Tate, therefore, could have been anyone”

Fri, 24 Feb, 2023

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Joyce Fegan: We must never lose our sense of compassion
'It's as if hate has become PC, the way in which to enact our free speech'

Fri, 17 Feb, 2023

Joyce Fegan: Mother and baby homes redress shortfall touches a primal nerve
Joyce Fegan: Mother and baby homes redress shortfall touches a primal nerve
“There’s a sense that this country and its people are not necessarily behind, nor swayed by the Government's apparent financial prudence on this occasion“

Fri, 10 Feb, 2023

Brigid: A guide and a muse to modern women
Brigid: A guide and a muse to modern women
Joyce Fegan takes a look at the name in history connecting in with both Oliver Cromwell and Adolf Hitler.

Mon, 06 Feb, 2023

Joyce Fegan: The story of Brigid and Patrick is one of patriarchy on this land
Joyce Fegan: The story of Brigid and Patrick is one of patriarchy on this land
While we reserved podium position for Patrick all these years, Brigid didn’t even make it to qualifying. But that’s more to do with patriarchy than meritocracy

Fri, 03 Feb, 2023

Joyce Fegan: Our stories and storytellers resonate on the global stage
Joyce Fegan: Our stories and storytellers resonate on the global stage
'Here was this oh-so-sophisticated audience in London laughing about the goings-on in a post office in Letterkenny'

Fri, 27 Jan, 2023

Joyce Fegan: Protests about refugees ring hauntingly hollow
Joyce Fegan: Protests about refugees ring hauntingly hollow
For more than 20 years the vast majority of us turned a blind eye to the plight of thousands upon thousands of people in our direct provision system, to pick up megaphones of protest two decades later and call it free speech is a pot calling the kettle black

Fri, 20 Jan, 2023

Joyce Fegan: Fat phobia has been around for centuries and it's nothing to do with health
Joyce Fegan: Fat phobia has been around for centuries and it's nothing to do with health
In combatting diet culture and the thin ideal, individuals are trying to face off centuries of fat phobia on their own, in a society that holds slim as a sacred virtue

Fri, 13 Jan, 2023

Emmalene Blake mural
Joyce Fegan: Our acceptance of misogyny five years on from #MeToo
When are we all going to get serious about tackling male violence?

Fri, 06 Jan, 2023

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Joyce Fegan: Has our outrage over homelessness been tamed?
Have we become so used, so immune, to the homeless crisis, that we have lost touch with the human beings behind the numbers?

Fri, 30 Dec, 2022

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Joyce Fegan: Turn down volume on ‘free’ speech with only malice at heart
This week it was announced that Formula One drivers will be banned from displaying political or religious statements without prior approval from next season. It has all the hallmarks of what goes on over at Fifa

Fri, 23 Dec, 2022

Cropped photo of hands giving Christmas present
Joyce Fegan: Forget the one-size-fits-all festive narrative and do what works for you
Just like Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl's enduring work of art, Christmas, like life, is a bit more shades of grey than one red-and-green colour palette fits all

Fri, 16 Dec, 2022

Joyce Fegan: Harry and Meghan blow the family whistle
Joyce Fegan: Harry and Meghan blow the family whistle
If God loves a trier, then the status quo hates a whistleblower. In any establishment’s antipathy of someone blowing the whistle, there is also the active condemnation of that person.

Fri, 09 Dec, 2022

Joyce Fegan: What the word of 2022 reveals about us
Joyce Fegan: What the word of 2022 reveals about us
'We live in a world where a war has been described as a “situation” and been told that the incitement of violence is actually the practice of free speech, and therefore must be protected, in other words, allowed'

Sun, 04 Dec, 2022

Sad lonely girl isolated stay at home in protective sterile medical mask on face looking at window
Joyce Fegan: Pandemic had a 'profound effect' on our wellbeing
'Reflecting on life at the end of 2022, compared with your life towards the end of 2019, proves a useful exercise'

Sun, 20 Nov, 2022

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Joyce Fegan: Cop on and start caring about climate change again
'Many people's children, never mind grandchildren, will be in their late 70s when the reality of this is being lived out — we're no longer borrowing our children's future, we're burying it after cremation'

Sat, 29 Oct, 2022

Joyce Fegan: A disconnect between the power and the people
Joyce Fegan: A disconnect between the power and the people
"Back home it looks like the empire next door is falling to pieces but walk its streets and it's business as usual"

Sat, 22 Oct, 2022

That’s how she got her pre-baby body back
Joyce Fegan: Why is the 'juggle struggle' an accepted way of life?
This week a study found that Ireland ranked second worst out of 38 OECD countries for parental leave and worst for public family policies

Sat, 08 Oct, 2022

Sabina Higgins hosts “Latching On” event at Áras an Uachtaráin
Joyce Fegan: Breastfeeding a clash between solidarity and shame
When I was pregnant, the resolve to "be healthier" strengthened. Increasing the water consumption and not letting seven hours pass between meals were top of the list — endeavours I'd historically failed at over the years.

Sat, 01 Oct, 2022

Child playing with mathematical toy
Joyce Fegan: Childcare measure in budget is hardly a game-changer
Bringing the 50c an hour to €1.40 an hour is a big step, but the lived reality of doing paid work while rearing a family in Ireland is a complicated manoeuvring of many moving parts

Tue, 27 Sep, 2022

Tommy Tiernan LATM Photo by Ray Keogh
Joyce Fegan: All we really are missing is willpower in this climate fight
Last Sunday two things happened in Ireland. In the first half of the day, Tommy Tiernan’s testimony about his recent trip to Somalia was published in a Sunday paper.

Sat, 24 Sep, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II death
Joyce Fegan: Washing the royal laundry in full view of the public
For the majority of us, we get to keep our houses and affairs private, but for the royals, they walk the line of grieving in public with all their dirty laundry on display

Sun, 18 Sep, 2022

Prince Harry visit to Cardiff Castle
Joyce Fegan: From paparazzi to podcasts — princesses 20 years apart
"While we busy ourselves in the comparison of two princesses and the dissection of Meghan, in 2022, isn't it time we took a look at ourselves, and the systems and platforms we use, populate and participate in?"

Sat, 03 Sep, 2022

CC LEINSTER HOUSE
Joyce Fegan: Fixing our great, great housing failure
“We need a mindset shift whereby we collectively believe that everyone deserves a safe place to rest their head at night, regardless of their take-home pay“

Sat, 13 Aug, 2022

Joyce Fegan: Where’s your head at in a post-pandemic world?
Joyce Fegan: Where’s your head at in a post-pandemic world?
Many people are experiencing a starkly different set of feelings with spikes in anxiety and depression

Sun, 07 Aug, 2022

Victim Sinéad O'Neill
Joyce Fegan: We should ask abusers and their supporters what they think they're doing
Waiving her anonymity, survivor Sinéad O'Neill said to others enduring abuse: 'Please reach out, because the support is there.' Perhaps more of the rest of us should speak up too

Sat, 30 Jul, 2022

Joyce Fegan: How a Quiet Girl captured the heart of a nation
Joyce Fegan: How a Quiet Girl captured the heart of a nation
Sometimes our consumption says a lot more about us than our utterances.

Sat, 16 Jul, 2022

GQ Men of the Year Awards 2019 - London
Joyce Fegan: David Beckham, as dad, leads by example
I got a watch this week, a Casio, €22. 99. It can't monitor my heart rate and it doesn't know how many steps I've taken in a day. It also doesn't alert me to an incoming call or a message.

Sun, 10 Jul, 2022

Joyce Fegan: Coining the term 'pro-life' was a masterstroke but it avoids the reality of abortion
Joyce Fegan: Coining the term 'pro-life' was a masterstroke but it avoids the reality of abortion
Women and girls who need abortions would love the luxury of a world where it was never necessary

Sun, 03 Jul, 2022

Joyce Fegan: Body hatred a ‘we’ problem lived out as a ‘me’ problem 
Joyce Fegan: Body hatred a ‘we’ problem lived out as a ‘me’ problem 
We're up against a culture that scrutinises a woman's flesh above all else. Just look at J-Lo — despite her many talents and accomplishments, we focus on her buttocks

Sat, 25 Jun, 2022

Joyce Fegan: We must all hold ourselves to account for the words we use
Joyce Fegan: We must all hold ourselves to account for the words we use
From Brian Friel to Sexual Violence Centre Cork: Quiet, wise voices keep reminding us we need to reflect on the way we frame other people — and the way we are framed by them

Sun, 15 May, 2022

Worried Mother With Baby Newborn On Her Shoulders
Joyce Fegan: Two life-changing years were shaped by the bug or a buggy — or maybe both
Spontaneity, adventure, and socialising all fell by the wayside. But do I attribute it to being a new parent or to the pandemic?

Sun, 20 Mar, 2022

Joyce Fegan: How Putin miscalculated the power of people
Joyce Fegan: How Putin miscalculated the power of people
If a tiny country such as Ireland can raise more than €8m in a single week, then it looks like Putin has vastly underestimated the power, and the capability of people, in the third decade of the 21st century

Sat, 05 Mar, 2022

Irish Lives Abroad: 'It's crazy here' as we discover that Ireland is not alone in having housing issues
Irish Lives Abroad: 'It's crazy here' as we discover that Ireland is not alone in having housing issues
Irish people living abroad discover big differences in terms of the availability, quality, and cost of housing — infinity pool, anyone? But they also encounter similar problems including undersupply

Sun, 02 Jan, 2022

Sad lonely girl isolated stay at home in protective sterile medical mask on face looking at window
Joyce Fegan: Recognising painful feelings is not an act of self-pity
No one's pain is unique, it might be different but it is not unique. In this lockdown, we can listen and be listened to. That can be our temporary cure.

Sun, 24 Jan, 2021

Electoral College Protests
Joyce Fegan: Why are we so unafraid of the white terrorist?
If we ever needed a clearer depiction of white supremacy and white privilege then Tuesday’s events in Washington painted it for us in the most emphatic way possible

Sat, 09 Jan, 2021

Joyce Fegan: 2021 - Into the new year, into the void
Joyce Fegan: 2021 - Into the new year, into the void
In the chasm between the comedic farewell to one year and the tragic welcoming of another, there is an air of something no one can quite name, perhaps doesn't want to name — apprehension, writes Joyce Fegan

Sat, 02 Jan, 2021

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