Dr Deirdre Foley

So pleased to have this published, and especially to highlight the bravery of Josie Airey and the crucial work of @flacireland. Thanks to @RIFNET_ for putting together such a great special issue!

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who long pursued justice in her allegations of rape against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and ultimately won a settlement amid his denials, died by suicide last year. This excerpt of her memoir, published after her death, details her first encounters with Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago when she was just a teenage girl, and plunged into the sinister world of Jeffrey Epstein vanityfair.com/news/story/vir…

James Marion Sims, known as “the father of modern gynecology," achieved his breakthroughs by experimenting on Black girls and women, without anesthesia or meaningful consent. It’s an origin story the US medical establishment has spent almost 180 years trying to reconcile, whitewash, or ignore. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

Thanks to Irish Times for publishing my piece on ‘Athena SWAN award a driver of change- or just genderwashing irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph. I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it destroys millions of jobs with the prosperity, dignity and community that goes with them. The worst scenario is the destruction of the human race - a fear openly expressed by an increasing number of senior and experienced AI engineers who are leaving the industry. And somewhere in between a myriad of horrors such as yet more screen learning and screen addiction for our children. But I do see that it will make rich men even richer. And that’s the most important thing of course.

Gender studies brings a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes. This lens reveals how gender hierarchies enable the kind of abuses that some men in Epstein’s circle believed they had the right to commit. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

My interview in video of Gisele Pelicot. youtu.be/RKc6OvAakIc?si…

The National Women's Council has called for stronger legal protections that would allow women and children in abusive situations to remain safely in the family home, and for perpetrators to be removed instead rte.ie/news/2026/0211…

This dark, tiny Dublin room honours survivors of Ireland’s barbaric Magdalene laundries irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women By Rebecca Solnit theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Reported, investigated - and then dropped: the sexual violence cases that never end up in court. "I have such a rage in me," said one woman. "I accepted a jury might not convict, but to not even get a trial?" jrnl.ie/6942037t

Athena SWAN award a driver of change - or just genderwashing? irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

'At Home in Ireland', a photo project I curated on Irishness in migrant homes, opens Aug 22 at The Hive (@DCU Glasnevin)! 🕓 Launch: 4–6 PM on 22nd 🗓️ On show for 2 weeks Huge thanks to @LawGovDCU for the support! Poster: Vase by artist Marcus O'Mahony ♾Please share for reach

What might “The Fate of Ophelia” mean? Could *The Life of a Showgirl* be Swift’s Great American Novel? I was on @NewstalkFM this afternoon talking all things Taylor Swift and literature. You can listen back here: open.spotify.com/episode/4BqjgD…

What an absolute farce. And this is just one site that has driven the media coverage, everywhere else is ignored to begin with. Zero political will and we will be how many more years waiting for the modicum of human decency towards people

As a survivor and former survivor advocates, the Diddy case is a prime example of why people don’t want to come forward against their abusers. Their trauma is put on display, they are rarely protected, and have to deal with a public that quickly says “she should have just left”

Sculptor Gabriel Hayes’ ‘Three Graces’ – sometimes referred to as the ‘Three Fates’ – at the former St. Mary’s College of Domestic Science, Cathal Brugha Street, 1943, was pioneering in its prominent depiction of femininity in Dublin’s public realm 🧵

Thinking today, on the tenth anniversary of the Berkeley tragedy, of Aoife Beary, Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Ashley Donohoe, Lorcán Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eimear Walsh, and of their family and friends. They will always be remembered as part of the @ucddublin community.

In 1990 I read Under the Hawthorn Tree, a profound read A novel about experiences of famine in Irl, I imagined the children eating eating barks of trees. Wondered what life was like for my people. Today children in Gaza are eating grass, they are dying from an enforced hunger.

For the new two-bed affordable apartments, you’ll will need a minimum annual salary of €75,000. “If you are earning €75,000 you are in the top 10% of highest earners in the country,” Bambrick said. thejournal.ie/how-much-need-…

Government offering to pay higher salaries to attract leading academics fleeing Donald Trump’s education threats BUT refusing to deal with the 50% of staff here right now on precarious contracts - often working below minimum wage & for free during exams independent.ie/irish-news/pol…