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...business world and stay-at-home parents--should be involved in discussing how best to balance work and home life. All parents should be supported in their decisions, regardless of gender. It's high time we stopped framing work-and-family discussions as women's issues. LORI EICKMANN Dublin, Calif...
IRELAND The State Steps In The Dublin government ordered a state enquiry into the activities of a Catholic priest, Father Sean Fortune, who committed suicide in 1999 facing sex-abuse charges. The decision follows the resignation of Fortune's bishop, Brendan Comiskey, who recently admitted that he had not done enough to protect children in his diocese...
...committees of enquiry set up by the Irish government. Some 3,000 men and women have come forward with stories of physical and sexual abuse against members of the Christian Brothers, the Sisters of Mercy and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Jacinta Madden, a lawyer working for a Dublin-based firm representing over 700 claimants, says that "the church is defending its stance very strongly, which is a little ambiguous, because recently they contributed $110 million to the fund for compensating these people." With the threat of legal action looming, the Christian Brothers took full page advertisements in the national...
...scandale as Mark Ravenhill's 1996 hit about sex and consumerism, Shopping and F______. Even he, though, may have been taken aback by the furor that has attended his latest project: Sebastian Barry's Hinterland, a co-production between Out Of Joint, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and London's Royal National Theatre...
...play has reached London, and Stafford-Clark is expecting a quite different reaction. "The play's reception in Dublin wasn't a complete surprise," Stafford-Clark says. "But in London, where Haughey is less well-known, it is likely to be seen more in the light of a domestic drama...