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.
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Even in a normal year, there is never a huge amount to look forward to in January. Once you’ve drained the last joy from the festive season via Women’s Little Christmas, and bid a fond farewell to a mountain of waste once the three Wiser men, following a Greenstar in the east, arrive at your crib bearing the gift of a trash compactor, the rest of the month is when we just put the head down and get on with some quiet sobbing.
Among the few events to look forward to in the immediate advent aftermath are two things your first payday of the new year, and the kids going back to school. This year, obviously, is different. We are fortunate in that payday will come, but like everyone else, the return to school is less certain. The news breaking in our house that school reopening was being delayed was greeted with cheers (them) and weary sighs (us) because this places us under a de facto house arrest again, trapped with our kids, very much like Ripley was trapped aboard the Nostromo wi
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1. Schools to remain closed - Leaving Cert students to do 3 days
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has announced that all schools must remain closed with teaching to move online. The only exemptions will be for children with special needs and Leaving Certificate students who will return for three days a week.
2.Non-essential construction sites to close from Friday
All construction sites, apart from those deemed to be critical infrastructure such as schools and some social housing projects, will close from 6pm on Friday until January 31st. Read details of the limited exceptions here.