I neglected to include details of the Le Chéile demo in Dublin last Saturday in yesterday's briefing. Thousands marched from Parnell Square through the city centre to Merrion Square Park in support of migrants, people of colour, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, Travellers and Palestinians. The Irish Times coverage includes video from the demonstration, as more than 130 national and local community groups, civil society and non-governmental organisations, trade unions (including Fórsa) and political parties took part.
Bobby McDonagh, writing in the Irish Times, says "the presence of Irish flags at some anti-immigrant protests has precisely nothing to do with love of Ireland, knowledge of our history or appreciation of our values."
The Indo reports from the WRC that a civilian analyst who exposed errors in garda homicide data has said that she was put under "terrible pressure and harassment" to sign off on a "one-sided" report by a review group, which she said was a “flagrant attempt” to undermine the methodology that had identified the issue in the first place.
You'll have heard of the glass ceiling in corporate life, but what about the glass cliff? Another great piece of workplace observation from Pilita Clark as International Women's Day approaches. Also, Cathy Sweeney writes about "femvertising" (advertising designed to empower women) as she observes, in this piece about consumerism, that "most women don't earn enough to achieve all the “choices” they are encouraged to make."
It's big, it's noisy, it's brilliant and it's cast are, to a man and woman, almost impossibly charismatic. Dune 2 is in cinemas and well worth a trip to your local picture house.
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