Radio Ga Ga… and not a Lady in sight

First Marian Finucane gets moved to the weekend on RTE Radio, where her listenership has continued to soar. On Newstalk, Orla Barry and Brenda Power are ousted to make way for Tom Dunne. Today FM have no female presenters in their daytime Monday-Friday schedule (Anne Marie Kelly is done by 7am, Alison Curtis isn’t on [...]

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Women! Know Your Place!

Women, eh? Is there anything we can’t blame them for? And can we do so while being witless, smug, and wildly inaccurate so we can pretend it’s satirical if anyone gets annoyed? Good thing women don’t read this newspaper – what? They do?
Or rather, they did.

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Gail Trimble and Google searches

Our post on Sunday about Gail Trimble being judged on her looks and criticised for being clever has chalked up huge traffic. Most of this is due to google searches, and the terms people used that brought them to this site. The results offer a pithier snapshot of opinion on Trimble and once again focus [...]

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Gail Trimble: Cleverness, aesthetics and sexism

One of my guilty pleasures is that I love quizzes. From Trivial Pursuit to table quizzes, I seem to have huge spongey brain that holds on to useless info like old bathwater. As a kid, our whole family loved them and would huddle around Blockbusters, The Krypton Factor (now back on TV, all made over [...]

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Irish Blog Awards & Irish Times mention

Being the modest souls that we are, it didn’t occur to us to mention that we made the shortlist for the 2009 Irish Blog Awards. They take place tonight in Cork, and sadly none of us will be there, mainly because we didn’t think we’d make the shortlist. We’d like to say a big thank [...]

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Jade Goody: Living and Dying in the public eye

The Anti-Roomers on the news that Jade Goody is dying of cancer and plans to live out her remaining time in the public eye. We’d love to hear your thoughts, feel free to jump in in the comments section.
LEIGH: Sweet Lord. Try as I might, I can’t stop rubbernecking the whole sorry saga that is [...]

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The Good Old Days

There’s a lot I could say about this idiotic and depressing piece in the Daily Misogynist Mail by a woman who blames feminism for the fact that she’s miserable. But Megan in Jezebel takes it down so well that I will just urge you to read what she says. Here’s a taste:
I wanted [...]

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Revoking your crushes or ‘How Giovanni Ribisi broke my heart’

I think it’s fair to assume that all of us have crushes on famous folk. Some, of course, are more predictable than others. Brad Pitt and George Clooney are obvious choices, and there’s the whole ’scarlah’ spectrum of our crushes of shame. Erotomania sufferers aside, none of us are delusional enough to think that [...]

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George Bush = unwanted hair

How much do I like this ad for Veet? A LOT.  Ah Veet, you may make bikini line regrowth scratchier than old vinyl, but your political heart is in the right place.

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TV Heaven, Telly Purgatory

Question: how to you react when you hear everyone banging on about a new and much-hyped TV programme? The type of shows, say, that turn people into heinous YouTube bores at house parties? If you’re anything like me, you’ll run straight in the opposite direction of it all. Given that every cat, dog and divil [...]

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