Clodagh Finn: Is Women’s Little Christmas really a day to celebrate?
There should be no such thing as women s issues, only human rights issues, writes Clodagh Finn
Marian Finucane and Nuala O Faolain were supremely talented women who fought to achieve social change in Ireland.
Wed, 06 Jan, 2021 - 07:00
Happy Nollaig na mBan! I want to rejoice and be happy and embrace Women’s Little Christmas, which falls today, but something is holding me back.
Perhaps it’s the memory of the look on my late mother’s face when we suggested marking Wee Christmas, as it is also known. With an almost imperceptible curl of the lip, she said a polite ‘no, thank you’, that she would not be accepting the scraps of the festive season.