Who’s the daddy?

I watched the story of Alfie Patten, 13, and his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, unfold over the last week. The two kids had a baby and now it emerges that there are two other teenagers claiming paternity. It’s turned into a Jeremy Kyle-esque DNA test fiasco that’s now set to play out in the press.  
There’s also [...]

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Me me me me

Respect where it’s due – my fellow Anti-Roomers are delightfully adept at keeping abreast of pop culture this and zeitgeist that. TV, music, film, fem-trends, they’ve got it all licked…and fair play to them. So I thought I’d leave them to it and post about my own specialist subject – ME.
I know – egomaniacal bint.
Anyway, [...]

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R.I.P. Eileen Flynn

R.I.P. Eileen Flynn. Thankfully we’ve come a long way from the kind of misogynistic religious stranglehold that thought it was ok to deprive a woman with a young family of her income because she wasn’t married. Sadly, this only happened in 1982, not 1962. Good ol’ Ireland and its sexist, backward moralism….

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Is Sarah Palin a granny?

John “I can’t remember how many houses I have” McCain is a canny man. Not content with stealing Obama’s thunder by announcing his vice-Presidential running mate less than 24 hours after the Democrat convention, he reveals that – gasp! – it’s a woman. Sarah Palin – an easy-on-the-eye “hockey mom” (albeit one who earned the [...]

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Was there abortion in 1950’s Ireland?

A few weeks ago, I had a fascinating conversation with an aunt of mine. She is the only girl in a family of strapping big brothers, so when she told me that she’d had a sister who had died in infancy, I found it really sad. As it turned out, this was the tip of [...]

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