Plan for 45 women-only senior jobs in third level institutions. Yup. That’s right. Senior academic jobs that are solely open to women. The logic behind this [apparently] is that one of the measures by which a country’s equality levels is … Continue reading →
In this Post Sanity world we now live in, there seems to be an open competition to see who is the most risible. A couple of weeks ago we had the strange case of a teacher telling six year olds … Continue reading →
Priceless! Parents who refuse to let their son wear a skirt to school may need to be referred to social services. Yes, you read that correctly. It seems that wearing traditional clothing is tantamount to child abuse, and that the … Continue reading →
Or as the politically insane would probably call it – youthfully challenged. I can sit back here in my mountain retreat and watch the word sink into a morass of political correctness, political interference and a level of weirdness that … Continue reading →
I had the extreme misfortune to hear a bit of Joe Duffy today. Our Joe is a bloke who does a phone in programme every afternoon on RTE radio, and frankly I cannot stand the programme or Duffy. People phone … Continue reading →
