Our Taoiseach really needs a lesson in checking his privilege

Surely there was someone somewhere, a man even, willing to point out to the Taoiseach that he’s big time storing up trouble with Irish women the way that he’s going on.

Our Taoiseach really needs a lesson in checking his privilege

Take one woman, me for instance, sitting for hour after hour watching the Oireachtas committee on the Eighth Amendment, where eminent medics, with decades of experience at the frontline of obstetrics, make clear the absolute disservice that has been done, and continues to be done, to Irish women.

In the background bubbling away is another box in the teeth for women — the controversy over pensions impacting an estimated 35,000 females who took time out from the workforce before 1994, or worked part-time.

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