Mainstreaming of gender pay gap issue is Kevin Myers’ gift to women

Irish women should be grateful to Kevin Myers for highlighting the misogynistic crap that has passed off for so long as legitimate commentary, writes Alison O'Connor.

The silly season, that very phrase is enough to send shivers up the spines of all politicians.

Once a controversy takes hold in the usuallynews-dead month of August it simply refuses to disappear, well what actually happens is the media doggedly hangs on to it in the absence of anything else to concentrate on. Just ask Kevin Myers.