Clodagh Finn: Women’s voices are still not being heard in the public domain Holly Cairns, Cork South West TD marked tone year since the 2020 general election by observing that there are 18 TDs for Cork, but only one of them herself is a woman. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
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There is a very long tradition of silencing women in public. Professor Mary Beard makes that point wonderfully when she traces the origins of telling women to shut up, as she bluntly puts it, right back to the Odyssey , Homer’s epic poem of antiquity.
The shushing of a woman or, at the very least, an early example of mansplaining is right there at the start of Western literature as the hero’s loyal wife is firmly put back in her place.
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Paris 2024 begin working from new headquarters in Saint-Denis
The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee has moved into sustainable headquarters in Saint-Denis today.
Members of the Organising Committee have begun working from the Pulse building at Place du Front Populaire.
The building is located in Saint-Denis in Seine-Saint-Denis, a region considered to be one of the poorest in France and which is set to be the location of the Paris 2024 Athletes Village and Olympic Aquatics Centre.
The move to Seine-Saint-Denis from offices on Boulevard Haussmann is aimed to dispel concerns of a negative impact on the area as a result of Paris 2024.