Sadhbh walshe biography
Born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, she grew up in Charlesville, Co. Cork, the second youngest of five children that included Grainne, Dara.
Sadhbh Walshe is known for The District (), Miss Bertram's Awakening () and History Detectives ().!
Ireland’s Big Choice
Ireland has had a tendency of late to surprise itself, and occasionally the world, as it dispenses with the vestiges of its theocratic past.
The country where, just over twenty years ago, homosexuality was still criminal became the first to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015. Shortly after, Ireland passed one of the most progressive transgender recognition laws in Europe.
Sadhbh Walshe: Thanks to its incarceration addiction, the US has the world's largest female prison population – but no plan for pregnancies.Previously, and within a generation, bans on contraception and on divorce were lifted.
Ireland’s leap into a new progressive era seemed to be solidified earlier this year with the appointment of the thirty-eight-year-old, half-Indian, openly gay Leo Varadkar as the country’s Taoiseach, or prime minister.
Varadkar’s government is now compelled to take on the final remnant of Ireland’s Catholic past: the constitutional ban on abortion. But on this thorniest of issues, the only surprise so far is how enduring the political resistance to change continues to