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Reader's Blog: Women must use majority status at the polls

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Reader's Blog: Women must use majority status at the polls

One of the more important aspects of the 1918 election that is being commemorated now was that it was the first time women were allowed to vote.

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (03/01/17)

Sarandon’s comments undermined quality of debate

Personality politics are concealing real issues

Internet fora can’t replace newspapers

Banking enquiry ignored boom spending

It’s sad to see what excites our electorate

It’s sad to see what excites our electorate

A politician falls out of a boat. The democratic discourse on the internet goes viral.

Mon, 04 Jan, 2016

Cutting €10bn agri-food industry to meet climate targets is no easy task

Cutting €10bn agri-food industry to meet climate targets is no easy task

Your editorial (December 29) on the Paris conference on global warming focused on the narrow aspect of what you call “the disproportionately powerful farm lobby”.

Fri, 01 Jan, 2016

The agrifood sector is much more than the farming lobby

The agrifood sector is much more than the farming lobby

Your editorial (Irish Examiner) December 8 stated that even discussing the Irish agri-food industry in relation to global warming is ‘shameful’.

Fri, 11 Dec, 2015

Difficult decisions ahead on global warming

Difficult decisions ahead on global warming

Achieving agreement on global warming is going to be difficult. Putting the agreement into operation is going to be even more difficult.

Sat, 05 Dec, 2015

Women can get their issues on the agenda

Women can get their issues on the agenda

Alison O’Connor is right to advise women to question canvassers and politicians in the forthcoming election on female equality [Opinion, November 20].

Mon, 23 Nov, 2015

Irony of being lectured by Yanis Varoufakis

Irony of being lectured by Yanis Varoufakis

It is ironic that we have former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, lecturing us in this country about what constitutes a ‘paradigm of success’.

Mon, 09 Nov, 2015

Barry-Murphy was calm in face of pointless noise

Barry-Murphy was calm in face of pointless noise

The ‘reverence for Jimmy Barry-Murphy’ is richly deserved (Irish Examiner, Sport, August 31).

Wed, 02 Sep, 2015

Media’s hyping of Celtic Tiger contributed to economic collapse

Media’s hyping of Celtic Tiger contributed to economic collapse

Your columnist Michael Clifford rightly condemns the “same old political promises”, but he ignores the elephant in the room: media hype [Irish Examiner, January 3].

Thu, 08 Jan, 2015

Media not doing enough on water charge coverage

Media not doing enough on water charge coverage

Michael Clifford says the Government has made a ‘hames’ of setting up the water infrastructure. If they have, the media coverage of the issue has not done much better.

Wed, 29 Oct, 2014

E-voting would have undermined credibility of the count

E-voting would have undermined credibility of the count

Declan Kenny may be right or wrong when he says that the proposed Irish post-codes are “a mess that will be foisted upon us” as part of our “less glorified history” of “willful ignorance and incompetence” [Letters, October 17].

Sat, 18 Oct, 2014

E-voting would have undermined credibility of the count

Declan Kenny may be right or wrong when he says that the proposed Irish post-codes are “a mess that will be foisted upon us” as part of our “less glorified history” of “willful ignorance and incompetence” [Letters, October 17]. 

Sat, 18 Oct, 2014

Beware of making the mistakes of the boom

Nick Foley blames ‘Labour under Burton’ and ‘Labour under Gilmore’ for ‘slowly flaying Paddy alive’ [Letters, October 11].

Wed, 15 Oct, 2014

Media is threatening the foundations of democracy

The power of the media in influencing our political attitudes will be measured by the survival or non-survival of the Taoiseach between now and the next general election.

Fri, 10 Oct, 2014

Journalists deserve to be criticised by public

Journalists deserve to be criticised by public

Terry Prone tells us that ‘shouting abuse at journalists’ is not good (June 23). Why is it not? The media are as much to blame for the bankruptcy of the country as the politicians and bankers.

Thu, 26 Jun, 2014

Men are the reason so few women in politics

I welcome Oisín Sheehan (aged 11) to the debate on why there are so few women in politics (Letters, April 29).

Tue, 06 May, 2014