Work & Life issue 23

THE MAGAZINE FOR IMPACT MEMBERS

ISSUE 23 • AUTUMN 2013

LOCKED OUT What the 1913 centenary means today.

ZERO HOURS THREAT AUSTERITY ALTERNATIVES IMPACT MEMBER BENEFITS FIRE SERVICE HEROES COLOMBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS

ALSO INSIDE TWERKING. STYLE ICONS. THE SPINNING HEART. CHANGING CAREERS. MEN’S HEALTH. WOMEN IN FILMS. LOCKOUT COMMEMORATION EVENTS. TASTY ITALIAN TREATS. LAWN SURGERY. IR SCHOLARSHIPS. BOOKS. ALL THE NEWS. LOTS OF PRIZES.

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In this issue

work& & life Autumn 2013 WORK

LIFE

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ZERO-SUM The spread of zero hours contracts threatens us all.

LOCKOUT Why commemorate 1913?

BUDGET 2014 Is austerity running out of road?

SAVE MONEY IMPACT members get financial benefits.

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FIRE FIGHTING HEROES We meet Dublin’s fire fighters.

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HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS How IMPACT members are supporting Colombians.

YOUR CAREER Thinking about a career change.

INTERNATIONAL Colombian unions feel the heat.

Work & Life is produced by IMPACT trade union's Communications Unit and edited by Bernard Harbor.

Front cover: Photo by Photocall Ireland.

Eric O’Brien as Dennis in ANU Production’s highly acclaimed Tenement Experience, which ran in 14 Henrietta Street over the summer.

IMPACT was among the financial backers of the production, which was staged as part of the Lockout centenary commemorations.

Contact IMPACT at: Nerney's Court, Dublin 1.

Phone: 01-817-1500.

Email: rnolan@impact.ie

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IMPACT PEOPLE IMPACT member Jeanette Rhenstrom on the Irish Writers’ Exchange.

COMMEMORATE 1913 centenary events.

FASHION How style icons help us.

FOOD Tuck into Italian treats.

GARDENS Draining the lawn.

ADMIN SLUR SLAMMED NEW HEALTH STRUCTURES SEÁN REDMOND BUDGET ALTERNATIVE BALLINASLOE PROTEST AIR STRIKE AVOIDED REFUGE WORRIES YOUTH JOBS PITCH WHISTLEBLOWER LAW HRA HOURS LIMERICK MERGER

PRIZES

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HEALTH Addressing men’s health.

MOVIES Women in comedies? It’s not funny.

MUSIC When twerking ain’t working.

BOOKS Donal Ryan’s Spinning Heart.

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Win Jeanette Rhenstrom’s Book Win the award-winning Spinning Heart.

Win €50 in our prize quiz.

Rate Work & Life and win €100.

SPORTS Triumphant triathlete Aileen Reid.

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For five years, unions have argued that austerity is preventing economic recovery. Is the message finally getting through?

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Congress has outlined ways that capital spending can be increased without placing additional burdens on the exchequer.

And it says increased taxes on the highest earning households can be achieved without increasing tax rates or changing tax bands.

THERE’S SOMETHING different about the pre-budget chatter this year. For the first time since 2008, there’s a serious debate – among economists, the media commentariat, and even within the coalition – about whether, and how fast, the austerity juggernaut should keep on rolling.

The subtle yet significant shift has been provoked by a number of things: Austerity fatigue; the €1 billion annual savings from the ‘promissory note’ deal; persistent off-stage IMF whisperings that austerity has gone too far; the emergence of the trade union-backed Nevin Institute, which has at last provided a credible and consistent alternative to the economists’ failed consensus.

And, of course, it’s becoming harder to argue that austerity is working. Even if you set aside the huge cost of unemployment – particularly youth and long-term joblessness – or our damaged public services after years of savage cuts, we have still struggled to meet troika deficit targets as unemployment and low confidence hits consumer spending and, thus, exchequer income.

Cuts and tax In this environment, more people are listening to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ (ICTU) view that Ireland can pursue an alternative to austerity and still meet its 2015 troika deficit target.

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Speaking after the launch, Tom Healy of the union-backed Nevin Economic Research Institute said this could be done primarily by targeting tax reliefs enjoyed by businesses and higher income households, which would avoid hitting all but the very highest paid PAYE earners.

“The nominal tax rate for the highest earners is currently 5255%. But tax reliefs mean that, on average, they pay a much lower percentage of their income – an estimated 27% in 2011 – in tax. If this average figure were increased to around 30% by targeting tax reliefs and other breaks, there would be no need for increased taxes for households that earn less than €109,000 a year,” he said.

Jobs ICTU general secretary David Begg says Government policy should become more job-focussed and growth-friendly. “There is no contradiction between our approach and meeting agreed budgetary targets. In fact, by adopting this strategy for budget 2014 we stand a better chance of reaching those targets, while creating more jobs and minimising social damage,” he said.

In line with the unions’ continuing emphasis on the jobs crisis, Mr Begg said recent good news on employment was welcome but not enough. “We still have one in four out of work or underemployed, plus collapsed retail sales and flat domestic demand,” he said.

ICTU’s has been a lonely cry in the wilderness during half a decade of cuts, emigration and mounting joblessness. Now – painfully slowly, but just as surely – other influential voices are wondering if it’s time to shunt the austerity juggernaut up a side street.

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Your career

Time for a change?

CONFUCIUS said ‘choose a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.’ ISOBEL BUTLER says it can be done – with a bit of thought and planning.

ON AVERAGE we spend 32% of our waking time in the workplace.

So it’s not surprising that work is a major influence on our happiness levels. We’re happier and more satisfied when the work we do is meaningful and plays to our strengths and interests.

But what if your career leaves you dissatisfied and wanting more? Even at school we make choices that influence the careers we pursue. But not all of us are clear about our strengths, or what we really want to do, at that early age. It’s not surprising if some of us feel mismatched and dissatisfied with our chosen careers in later years.

US research suggests people have as many as seven career changes throughout their working lives.

Sometimes it’s a choice; sometimes circumstances force the change. Whichever it is, you’re entering a long process of transition if you’re thinking about changing careers.

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Start by reflecting on why you want to change. Is it a real burning desire to start a different career or are you simply running away from problems in your current job? Running away isn’t a good starting point for career change.

So try and resolve the issues and identify the real source of your current discontent before making any big decisions.

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Your career Once you’re sure you really want to make the change, identify what you want from your career. What are the key components that will make it meaningful and interesting? What are your core values; the things you think are important in life? What are your interests and strengths?

In today’s constrained labour market, employers don’t take on new staff who lack the necessary skills and experience. You need to identify how you’ll gain experience, perhaps through an internship or by volunteering whilst pursuing a qualification.

Advice If you’re not sure, you can get advice from a careers counsellor specialised in adult guidance. They can help you sift through the mire of information, which can be confusing and overwhelming at this stage of your deliberations.

They can also help you build awareness of your aptitudes, interests and personality through the use of psychometric testing, revealing work environments and careers that best play to your strengths. But, as Marie McManamon of Clearcut Consulting points out: “A career counsellor can support you in your career decision making process, but it is what you think and feel that matters. No one can tell you what career direction to choose. You must make that decision yourself.”

Research As you begin to identify possible careers, do your research and find out exactly what’s involved. Will they actually provide the opportunities you want? What qualifications or experience do you need to work in the field? Will you have to retrain and, if so, where can you get training and how long will it take? Can you retrain on a part-time basis if you need to continue earning an income?

Now get out and network. Meet and talk to people who work in the field and get an honest view of what’s involved. Talk to potential employers to find out what they want from employees in terms of qualifications and experience.

Find out more Here are some useful websites, which will help you reflect and research possible alternative careers. l

www.qualifax.ie This one-stop shop for learners lists all further and higher education and training courses in Ireland.

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www.careerguidance.ie For career guidance and educational information.

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www.gradireland.com Offers careers advice, highlighting issues around career selection and gaining experience.

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www.onetonline.org This site lists all careers and their associated knowledge, skills, abilities, work activities, interests, work values and styles. Useful for identifying the type of career that would offer opportunities to use your strengths and abilities.

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www.careerkey.org This site provides more in-depth information on matching careers to interests and abilities.

Here again, a careers counsellor can help identify appropriate accredited and recognised courses required to gain entry to specific careers.You’ll also have to assess the realistic oppor tunities of getting a job. Will you have to move to find work?

This research will help ensure you choose a new career because it really suits rather than being seduced by a professional title or the perceived status of the job. If it doesn’t match your interests and values it won’t be meaningful, motivating or a good match for you.

Money Think about how you’ll manage financially whilst retraining or getting experience.

Can you afford to live on a reduced income? Will you earn as much as you do now even after you’re qualified in your new role?

Talk to family and friends.

Explain your decision and make sure you have their support. This is especially important if there’s a financial consequence for family, or when it impacts on the time available for them while retraining or gaining work experience.

Being clear and realistic about your choices, discovering your strengths and abilities, researching the realities and marshalling the support of friends and family will give you the confidence and direction needed to make this career transition l

Isobel Butler is an independent organisational psychologist who works with people on a wide range of workplace issues including conflict management, dealing with change and solving problems. If there are specific issues you’d like her to tackle in these articles send them in via the editor, Work & Life magazine, Nerney’s Court, Dublin 1 or info@impact.ie.

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1913 Lockout Centenary events The Irish Congress of trade Unions is organising and supporting a wide range of events to mark this year’s centenary of the 1913 Lockout.

Get more information and a full list of events from www.impact.ie Dublin Lockout exhibition, National Library of Ireland

Dublin Divided, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin

This important commemorative exhibition includes archive material from the Lockout period, much of it on view for the first time.

An on-line study resource has also been prepared to enhance access to the material, which will also be used for the special Lockout schools’ programme.

The Hugh Lane Gallery's collection contains many portraits of those active in the 2nd Until ary Lockout, plus works by artists like William u Febr 4 201 Orpen and George Russell (AE) who were involved in the dispute. This exhibition also includes images of Dublin life in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century with works

by John Lavery, Sarah Purser, John and Jack B. Yeats, Casimir Markievicz, Auguste Rodin, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Maurice MacGonigal and Louis le Brocquy.

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An Post has produced a series of special edition stamps to mark the Lockout. Now on sale.

Food ship re-enactment, Dublin port

A three-sided wrap depicting the story of the Lockout has been installed around Liberty Hall. The three-sided image forms a ‘graphic novel’ telling the Lockout story.

The 100th anniversary of the first food shipment from the British TUC to support striking h t workers and their families will be re-enacted 6 nd 5th a ober with the participation of present day TUC Oct 3 201 leaders. A ship will be ‘off-loaded’ in Dublin city centre to acknowledge the role of this aid in supporting the struggling workers.

National tapestry project

Banners Unfurled, National Museum

Liberty Hall installation

SIPTU’s national tapestry project tells the 1913 story through 50 richly embroidered panels with accompanying film and TV documentary. Organised in collaboration with community groups, artists, the National College of Art and Design and the Embroidery Guild. On display in National Museum, Collins Barracks, Dublin, from 9th October until 14th November.

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Looking good

Piles of styles Audrey Hepburn is one, but Katherine Hepburn isn’t.

TRISH O’MAHONY wonders what it takes to make a style icon, and what it means for our wardrobes.

WHAT COMES to mind when you hear the term ‘style icon’? I tend to think of the fifties and sixties, but there are plenty of modern day icons too.

Is your preference the slightly distant Jackie Onassis, Marylyn Monroe in her tight-fitting clothes that showed off her assets, or Audrey Hepburn in her demure, but still sexy, little black dress and ballet pumps?

Style icon Audrey Hepburn

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How come the equally beautiful Katherine Hepburn (no relation to Audrey) tends not to feature?

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Style on show

How about Lady Di, who single handedly revived the British fashion industry. And Twiggy, with the face of a 1960s angel? Some of the recent autumn-winter fashion shoots were replicas of the swinging sixties style.

Johnny Depp

TRISH O’MAHONY checked out the global style icons on show in Newbridge.

Modern Let’s not write off living icons like Johnny Depp, Michelle Obama, David Beckham and Kate Moss. Kate Middleton has acquired the top position in Hello magazine simply because she knows what style suits her best and dresses appropriately whatever the occasion.

I know I go on a bit about model turned TV presenter Alexa Chung, but she’s undoubtedly my No. 1 style icon of the modern day. She knows how to mix things up, incorporating a mish-mash of different looks in one ensemble from tomboyish to bohemian and trendy. The end result is always original, ultra feminine and flattering to her svelte shape.

Alexa Chung

Despite always looking good, she claims in her style book IT, to be “a ball of anxiety,” battling with her weight and surviving serious heartbreaks. Maybe that’s the price you pay for being in the top 100 icon lists.

I haven’t seen Tilda Swinton’s name on any style icon listings but I’d include her because she does androgynous dressing so well and has her own unique style. One thing is sure the list of names is endless and each icon has their own unique style.

YOU CAN pore over top style icons’ clothes and artefacts at Newbridge Museum of Style Icons, which is rated in the top five free tourist attractions in Ireland. Here you’ll find collections belonging to stars of the silver screen like Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Grace, Greta Garbo plus Princess Di, Michael Jackson, the Beatles and many more.

As well as its own permanent collection, the museum regularly hosts visiting exhibitions from around the globe. Collections from the Oscar-winning costume designer William Travilla were showcased in September. The never-before-seen collection included gowns from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, There’s No Business Like Show Business and The Seven Year Itch.

Located in the Newbridge silverware visitor centre, you can shop while you’re there. And enjoy breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea in the award-winning Silver restaurant.

The shop and flagship showroom carry the full range of jewellery and cutlery made in the adjacent craft workshop.

Homeware, glassware, giftware and collections by Irish designers are also available and parking and admission are free. Open seven days a week, it’s genuinely worth a visit – especially in the build up to Christmas and during their annual sale. Visit online if you can’t get there in person.

“Everyone has their personal favourite fashion icon and we can plunder their look to help our own. Emulate what you admire from the stars, but don’t be a pure copycat.”

Personal Everyone has their personal favourite fashion icon and my choice might be your least favourite. The one you admire most probably most closely resembles your own style.

Marilyn Monroe is one of the exhibition’s staples.

Tilda Swinton

But what have the style icons ever done for our wardrobes? Just as we’re attracted to them because they reinforce our own preferences, we can plunder their look to help our own. Emulate what you admire from the stars, but don’t be a pure copycat.

Go to fashion shows and freebie style events in the big department stores. They run them to encourage you to spend, so be disciplined if you’re only in the market for inspiration.

It doesn’t cost to look.

Dare to be as original as you want to be, but dress to suit your personality and lifestyle.

Have an individual trademark and develop a signature look, though this is easier said than done for us impulse shoppers who tend to buy on a whim!

Vogue’s Anna Wintour

Above all, remember to be your own style icon. If you like what you see in the mirror, that’s good enough. Fashion’s there to be enjoyed, so don’t become a ball of anxiety about it l WORK & LIFE: THE MAGAZINE FOR IMPACT MEMBERS 21

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Take a feature from your favourite fashion icon and incorporate it into your style. If that icon was around in the 60s, you’re right on trend.

Wear a consistent hairstyle. Maybe you love rockabilly queen Imelda May’s blonde quiff or Anna Wintour’s bob. Pick the hairstyle, length and colour that best suits you and stick with it. Play up your best features and wear colours that make you feel good.

Photos: dreamstime.com

In the kitchen

La bella Pizza. Pasta. Nutella. Italian cuisine has it all. And MARGARET HANNIGAN says it’s easy to do.

LET’S PAUSE for a moment and just ever-so-briefly consider the debt we owe the Italians. For giving us pasta, pizza and Nutella. Not to mention mozzarella, ice cream and fish n’ chips.

Sadly, our gratitude is not the kind that can be converted into hard cash, which Italy badly needs right now. It is the nobler, everyday kind that fills long speeches and column inches, but regrettably adds value to reputations only.

Italy in its current format is actually quite new. The component parts go back to the Roman empire and beyond, but it was only about 200 years ago that 27 different states agreed to join hands and sing the same anthem. Old loyalties linger however, and the cuisine remains fiercely local.

Each region, if not every village, is certain only their way is the right way and that others are getting it so wrong it would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. But all are in agreement about the importance of fresh, high quality produce, eaten in season when it’s at its best, and cooked simply so that the food shines through.

Domestic It’s a cuisine shaped by the needs of the domestic kitchen rather than grand chefs with Michelin stars in their eyes. Most dishes use four to eight ingredients, and do not require a battery of sophisticated equipment or any great technical knowledge.

Once you’ve mastered the art of cooking pasta to the point where its al dente (or firm to the bite) rather than mushily soft, you’re pretty much there.

It’s important to have an abundance of boiling water, into which you’ve splashed some olive oil, to allow the pasta to swell without clumping. Some add a swirl of salt to the water as salted water boils at a higher temperature, and may reduce cooking times. But it’s a matter of personal taste.

In Italy, there’s actually a law that says dried pasta can be made only from durum wheat flour or semolina as only this ‰

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Italia kind of pasta can be cooked al dente. It’s not possible to get what Italians consider the proper texture – where there’s still some bite, but no dryness – when pasta’s made from other kinds of flour.

Italian cuisine is shaped by the needs of the domestic kitchen rather than grand chefs with Michelin stars in their eyes.

Again, it’s a matter of taste and pasta is very forgiving. While potatoes require peeling and can collapse into watery mush; where rice can be sticky or grainy and tasteless; pasta is always just wonderfully, blissfully, pasta.

THIS RECIPE makes 6-8 medium-sized thin pizza bases.

Use only strong white flour suitable for making yeast bread. You can use any spare dough to make garlic bread. Roll it out like a base, then mash 1-2 garlic cloves with 2-3 tablespoons olive oil and spread it over the dough. Scatter over some chopped parsley if you have it.

Season generously with salt and pepper. Just before cooking, make little slashes in the dough and gently pull them open, then cook until crisp. Perfect for sharing.

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800g strong white flour

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200g fine ground semolina flour (if unavailable, use strong white flour)

Our other Italian best friend Pizza began its life as street food in Naples. From these humble beginnings it conquered the world or, more importantly, America. And you can put your cutlery away; the correct way to eat pizza is in rolled up slices.

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1 level teaspoon salt

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2 x 7g sachets of dried yeast

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1 tbsp golden caster sugar

It’s plain sailing once you get the hang of making your own dough, which is really easy, very relaxing, and a great way of making a little go a long way. It’s probably best not to overload the base with toppings, as you want the dough to cook quickly (it shouldn’t take more than ten minutes) and be puffy and crisp.

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Around 650ml /1 pint lukewarm water.

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It’s essential to have a really hot oven, so turn it up to the highest setting and let it pre-heat thoroughly. Jamie Oliver suggests getting a piece of marble or granite, about an inch thick, cut to fit your oven. When pre-heated it will absorb heat almost like the base of a wood-fired oven and give an authentic wood-fired pizza result.

Calories And as for Nutella, it originated in Piedmont where hazelnuts flourish. But be warned. It contains 20% palm oil, which makes it very high in calories. I suppose if you left out the tomato sauce and cheese you could conceivably spread it on your pizza. But I don’t think I’d recommend it l

Pile flours and salt onto a clean surface and make a well in the centre. Add yeast and sugar to the warm water, mix up with a fork and leave for a few minutes, then add to the well. Using the fork in a circular movement, mix the flour from the edge into the water. It will eventually come together into a dough.

Flour your hands and knead as hard as you like, pushing the dough away from you, until it’s smooth and springy.

About ten minutes. Flour the top of the dough, cover with cling film, and let it rest for about 15 minutes.

Divide the dough into as many balls as you want pizzas – six will work well for this quantity. Roll out the pizzas about 15 minutes before cooking. You can put them on pieces of tinfoil that have been oiled and floured, then dust the tops with a little flour, stack them up, cover with cling film, and keep in the fridge until needed. It’s essential to have the oven preheated to its highest setting.

Lash on the toppings, and it should be ready in 7-10 minutes.

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At the movies

It’s no joke MORGAN O’BRIEN says the lack of women in comedy film roles just isn’t funny.

THE BECHDEL test assesses whether a movie has two female characters who speak to one another about something other than a man. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, there are plenty of films that fail this simple challenge.

(1939) albeit with more toilet humour.

The former featured Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball as aspiring actresses rooming together in New York, while George Cukor’s The Women (woefully remade in 2008) had an exclusively female cast with Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell and Joan Crawford trading snappy barbs.

Comedies rate particularly badly, with female actors getting short shift when it comes to comedic roles.

Recently female characters have tended to be shrewish killjoys of Melissa McCarthy male arrested adolescence. and Sandra Bullock in The Heat.

Elsewhere any number of anodyne rom-coms, and the edgeless, airbrushed Sex and the City films, portray women in thrall to rampant consumerism or in constant need of men.

oriented fare such as Clueless (1995) and Mean Girls (2004) which skewered the female ecology of high school.

In contrast, The Heat channels the more recent buddy comedy model, with opposites Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock forced to work together.

History fondly remembers 1980s maleoriented buddy movies like 48 Hrs, Midnight Run or Lethal Weapon. But the equally successful female-led comedies of the period – Outrageous Fortune with Better Midler and Shelley Long and Big Business with Midler and Lily Tomlin – tend to get forgotten.

Successful comedies with central female characters like Election (1999), the offbeat Ghostworld (2001) and Juno (2007), with Ellen Page’s excellent turn as an acerbic teenager, remain the exception rather than the rule. The light and engaging Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (1997), with Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, is long forgotten

However, the recent success of Bridesmaids and The Heat belies the myth that women don’t have the comedy chops to carry a film. It doesn’t necessarily indicate a sea change in filmmaking. But at least it reminds audiences that femaleled comedies can be every bit as witty and enjoyable as the rest.

Indeed, it’s a return to form.

Strong female characters were a hallmark of the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. Irene Dunne, Katherine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell more than held their own alongside Cary Grant in The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940) respectively.

It’s not necessarily a sea change in filmmaking, but at least it reminds audiences that female-led comedies can be every bit as witty and enjoyable as the rest.

Hepburn and Ruth Hussey had perhaps the best lines in The Philadelphia Story (1940) alongside Grant and James Stewart.

Snappy As an ensemble piece, Bridesmaids shares a heritage with films such as Stage Door (1937) and The Women 28

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Equally, Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe formed a spiky and spirited double act in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). A line from these earlier films can be charted through the likes of Nine to Five (1980) where Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin kidnap their sexist boss, and later teen-

More recently, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both Saturday Night Live alumnus, starred in the mildly distracting Baby Mama (2008) while Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (2011), featuring Greta Gerwig, is a quirky acquired taste.

These days, writers and performers who’ve honed their skills on the small screen are carving out stronger female comedic roles. Paul Feig, who directed Bridesmaids and The Heat, cut his teeth working on cult classic Freaks and Geeks, while Fey and Poehler have built strong reputations with 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation respectively.

Whether they can parlay this work into further big-screen success remains to be seen l

Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

The Fifth Estate

Philomena (1st November)

(11th October) Big screen treatment of the Wikileaks story with Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange.

This Stephen Frears-directed drama stars Steve Coogan as a journalist who helps Judi Dench’s titular Philomena track down a son she was forced to give up for adoption.

Don Jon (15th Nov)

Gravity (18th October) Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller, featuring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts stranded in a damaged space station, got a positive reaction at the Venice film festival.

Writer and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt also stars as a modern-day Don Juan, who grows dissatisfied with his life. The impressive support cast includes Julianne Moore, Scarlett Johansson and Tony Danza.

True story, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks, about a man taken hostage by Somali pirates.

Hunger Games: Catching Fire (22nd November) Second instalment of the dystopian series based on Suzanne Collins novels. Jessica Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen, with support from Josh Hutcherson, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks and Phillip Seymour Hoffman,

Ender’s Game

A Most Wanted Man (22nd November)

Captain Phillips (18th October)

(25th October) Adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s cult sci-fi novel about a boy fighter pilot battling an alien invasion. Attracted controversial pre-release controversy following Card’s statements on same-sex marriage.

Thor: The Dark World (1st November) The sequel to 2010’s successful comic-book adaptation Thor, with Chris Hemsworth once again wielding the hammer to save the world from destruction.

Adapted from John Le Carré’s spy thriller, this Anton Corbijn film stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams and Willem Defoe.

Carrie (29th November) Remake of the Brian de Palma’s 1977 classic.

Chloe Grace Moretz takes the role of the teenager with telekinetic powers exacting revenge on high school bullies.

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Miley Cyrus is too tame to appeal or appal, says RAYMOND CONNOLLY. NEVER WERE the words ‘controversial’ and ‘provocative’ pressed so unnecessarily into service as when August’s news bulletins described the grind that bumped Syrian genocide into second place on CNN. The adjectives were applied generously and gratuitously to the gyrations of one whose existence I'd managed to ignore up to now.

Not Louis Spence (great dancer, but imagine sitting next to him on a bus to Kilbarrack) but the progeny of Billy Ray 'Achy-Breaky Heart' Cyrus and his early nineties ponytail.

Miley Cyrus managed to raise a few heckles and slacken Will Smith’s jaw at the VMA awards (no, I don't know what they are either, but every class of mediocrity has its own awards show now) by doing something called ‘twerking.' You can Google it, but I got out the old YouTube machine and satisfied myself that it was all a storm in a teacup.

Young Cyrus was merely trying to make a name for herself doing what generations of young performers have done before. Badly. That's the real controversy here. The dancing was dreadful. Really cringe-worthy, and your average hoofer (what they called dancers when I was a lad) would surely say the same. ‰ Miley could learn a thing or two from punk singer Amanda Palmer.

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Madonna and Britney Spears kiss at the 2003 MTV VMAs.

Elvis Presley's 1950s gyrations caused a similar fuss.

But time has passed and, let’s face it, we tend not to remember the King for his dancing. The Sex Pistols’ TV swearing generated lots of mock outrage, but the world moved on. Anything the Pistols did is utterly eclipsed by the goose bumps I get every time I hear Pretty Vacant’s opening riff.

Goose bumps But the really bad news for Cyrus is that nobody's talking about the music. Because, when women manage to make a big impression in the man’s world of pop and rock, there’s generally a lot more substance at work.

Kate Bush freaked everyone out with her first Top of The Pops appearance. A mere 16 years old, she popped up with a voice like nobody's heard before, dancing like an uninhibited hippy in a field, with a wild shock of hair and that wild look in her eyes, singing a song about Cathy and Heathcliff’s deathly romance on the moors.

We stared in disbelief and bought her records by the truckload.

Lady Gaga guested on X Factor, playing the piano while sitting on a toilet. We now know that Simon Cowell is immune to the power of the metaphor.

Queen bee

The queen bee was Debbie Harry. Fronting a tight R'n'B crew who honed their craft alongside Talking Heads and The Ramones (I know, you’ve got the tee-shirt) in the rough, ready and dangerous surroundings of CBGB’s in lower Manhattan, Harry was the embodiment of Blondie.

Staring into the camera and singing her sassy, modern, urban and knowing songs of love, betrayal and fun like she meant it.

The band's legacy is an impressive back catalogue of solid tunes and a secure place in the hearts of everyone who ever paid attention. And we couldn’t help but pay attention.

Madonna might be a more obvious predecessor to Miley's high jinx. But even Ms Ciccone had the ambition and nous to work with the best DJs and producers on the scene, as she moved effortlessly from the 1980s New York club scene to a sustained period of global domination. Love her or loathe her, it's a formula that’s rarely failed. And the music has mostly managed to overshadow the fevered tabloid headlines.

Trumped Come to think of it, Madonna, Britney and Aguilera pretty much trumped later attempts to shock when they staged that three-way lesbian-wedding-snog thing at some other awards show (or was it the same one?) all those years ago. Yet the stunt is barely remembered ten years on.

Let’s also give an honourable mention to Lady Gaga, who manages to combine bizarre stage performance with some

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fairly solid pop tunes. She really won me over when she guested on X Factor, playing the piano while sitting on a toilet.

I still can’t quite believe she got away with it, but at least we now know that Simon Cowell is immune to the power of the metaphor.

But for a lesson in brilliantly subversive stage performance, the top prize goes to Boston’s (and my) favourite punk cabaret performer Amanda Palmer. When the Daily Mail mocked her minor wardrobe malfunction at Glastonbury this year (‘Making a boob of herself!’ ran the headline – chortle, chortle!) Palmer spoke on Newsnight about the fact that her whole body quite often popped out on stage, before performing a musical response in waltz time at a fashionable London venue: Dear Daily Mail, It's so sad what you tabloids are doing, Your focus on debasing womens' appearances Devolves our species of humans, But a rag is a rag, and far be it from me, To go censoring anyone – oh no, It appears that my entire body is currently Trying to escape this kimono!

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Summer/Autumn 2013 Crossword Solutions See page 42 for the competition winners from Issue 22.

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Author interview

Straight to the top Former union rep DONAL RYAN keeps his head as his Spinning Heart wins acclaim.

“It is unbelievable alright.

The standard of Irish writers is just so high at the moment,” he says. And the fact that he’s been described as one of the best writers of his generation? “I would be very uncomfortable with that.

Kevin Barry is one of the best writers in the world.

There are so many good writers at the moment.”

The critics take a different tack. And when the Guardian compares Ryan to JM Synge and Patrick McCabe, and the Independent draws comparisons with William Faulkner, people start to pay attention.

Photo: Matthew Thompson

HAVING YOUR first novel long-listed for the Booker prize and Guardian first book award, all after winning the 2012 Irish book award, could be enough to swell a young writer’s head.

But Tipperary-born Donal Ryan, author of Ireland’s most talked-about debut The Spinning Heart, is a modest man.

When the Guardian compares you to JM Synge and Patrick McCabe, and the Independent draws comparisons with William Faulkner, people start to pay attention.

Drama The novel follows the fallout of Ireland’s financial collapse, which provokes dangerous tensions in a small Irish town where the drama of a child’s kidnap and a man’s murder unfold. Its overarching narrative is provided by 21 characters who struggle with their take on the economic catastrophe in separate chapters. The result is a powerful polyphonic novel that’s difficult to put down once you start.

Bobby Mahon is the foreman of a building development who’s left high and dry when local boss Pokey Burke does a runner having paid no stamp or pensions for his staff. “It’s a situation many workers found themselves in at the end of the boom.

The novel captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland, putting the characters in the context of the recession and all that comes with it,” says Donal.

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demands of work, two young children and writing eventually put a stop to his union activity.

“I really enjoyed being involved in the unions, but it is a difficult job,” he says.

Donal was rejected by over 40 publishers before Dublin’s Lilliput Press became interested. Another novel, The Thing About December, was actually the first to be written and was accepted by Lilliput.

Donal kept pushing The Spinning Heart and eventually Lilliput and Doubleday Publishing came together and the deal was done.

The Thing About December is due out in the autumn. Set in the same village ten years before the spinning heart story unfolds, it tells the tale of a young guy who inherits rezoned land. Against his better instincts, he reluctantly succumbs to pressure to sell, becomes a multi-millionaire overnight, and watches his life go crazy. It sounds like another mad plot that’s entirely plausible in the context of Ireland’s boom and bust.

If it’s anything like as good as The Spinning Heart this modest Tipperary writers place in the Irish literary tradition looks assured.

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Get your heart spinning You could win a copy of The Spinning Heart. Simply send you answer to this question to Donal Ryan Competition, Roisin Nolan, IMPACT, Nerney’s Court, Dublin 1. Get it to us by Friday 27th November to be in with a chance of winning.

What county is Donal Ryan from?

Book reviews

An understandable kind of murder The Scent of Death Andrew Taylor (Harper, £7.99 in the UK) IT’S AUGUST 1778 and a crewman hooks a bloated corpse from the water as Edward Savill’s ship pulls into the New York dock. A pall of smoke hangs over the city from an overnight blaze set by rebel forces keen to repudiate English King George and establish an American republic.

Within a few hours Edward will see a second corpse and his work as an emissary of the American Department in London will begin in earnest. It’s an exciting beginning for the type of man you would expect to find sipping afternoon tea in a Jane Austen novel rather than flicking flies off a blood-stained corpse in a shantytown.

Placing this mild-mannered protagonist in such a highlycharged environment seems almost reckless. But the author is keen to test Edward’s mettle, and has already engaged our sympathies with his descriptions of acute sea-sickness, and an absent little daughter.

Caught in the periphery of this strange and unnecessary war, Edward must record the claims of dispossessed loyalists for adjudication in England, and report on the administration of justice in the city. This latter charge takes him from the drawing room to a burnt-out Virginian mansion via an up-market brothel and a couple of attempts on his life. Simmering away in the background is his attraction to Mrs Arabella Wintour.

From these and other diverse ingredients, Andrew Taylor concocts a tasty dish which looks like historical romance but leaves a smell of blood in the air. It’s always refreshing to read a character-driven detective story, where observation and deduction unravel the mystery.

The rise of the historical thriller in popular fiction could well reflect a yearning for a kinder, more understandable kind of murder, driven by intimate motives of desire, revenge, and fear rather than the modern near-obssession with serial killers.

This is a very well-written book, skilful and engaging with vivid characters and a real story at its heart. Taylor has the historian’s ability to reveal the spirit of the period and a true command of plotting and pace.

Margaret Hannigan

Gut instinct Cold Killing Luke Delaney (Harper Collins, £7.99 in the UK) THE VICIOUS murder of a young gay man, known to have worked as a male prostitute, looks like a homophobic attack or a lover’s rage. The killer has left no forensic evidence, leading detective inspector Corrigan of the south London serious crime unit to believe it was a premeditated killing.

When the body of a young runaway turns up, also the victim of a cruelly violent death, and again with no forensic evidence, Corrigan is convinced that the murders are linked.

He has a prime suspect but how can he get a conviction without any evidence? And could he be wrong?

Outwardly a handsome, wealthy, married man, the killer is an extremely cruel and intelligent sociopath who can move among his victims without causing alarm. Tension mounts as the killer picks each victim. The responsibility for stopping him weighs very heavily on the shoulders of DI Corrigan and his team. Outwitting such a skillful adversary is not easy, especially when there seems to be something else working against them.

A former CID officer in London, the author’s inside knowledge of location and procedure give the novel its authenticity. There are no good-looking detectives in shiny offices with the latest in modern technology. Here we have ordinary people doing a very hard day’s work in challenging conditions.

Despite following a well-worn formula, this is a gripping read with a satisfying number of twists and surprises.

Kathryn Smith continued on page 34 ‰ WORK & LIFE: THE MAGAZINE FOR IMPACT MEMBERS 33

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Northern songs River of Stars Guy Gavriel Kay (Harper Collins, £18.99 in the UK) THIS IS a big, engrossing book in the fantasy genre. Although it is set in the fictional empire of Kitai, and no era is mentioned, the author has based his novel on characters and events associated with China’s northern Song dynasty. While the broad sweep of the story is the tragic destruction of the Kitan empire, it’s very much character-driven.

Ren Daiyan is only 15 years old when he’s forced to kill seven men using his very considerable archery skills. For many years he lives as an outlaw himself

until he becomes a commander with the Kitan army. Incidents throughout the early chapters depict Daiyan as a man of high values and an appealing combination of strength and intelligence. Following a meeting with an intriguing fox-woman known as a daiji, Daiyan’s fate is written on his back in the calligraphy of the Emperor.

Meanwhile Lin Shan, educated by her loving and scholarly father, is still a young girl when she dares to speak her mind to important men. She becomes a well-known poet and songwriter, who becomes a favourite at court.

There are too many fascinating characters to mention here and their lives become linked by their great intellects and sense of purpose. If you love tales of heroism, attractive characters and bitter warfare you will love this book. The writing is clear and concise but the tone is also conversational as though a great legend is being retold by someone who witnessed the events.

Kathryn Smith

Glamorous affair Melting The Snow On Hester St Daisy Waugh (Harper Collins, £12.99 in the UK)

DAISY WAUGH occasionally writes caustic, observant, and interesting columns in newspapers. She’s also written a book called I Don’t Know How She Does It, which completely refutes many of our dearly held notions about good motherhood.

I particularly enjoyed her list of unnecessary and useless equipment that many new mothers feel compelled to buy, only to send them to the nearest charity shop within a few weeks (hello and goodbye Moses basket, breast pump and sling).

My point being, the woman can write. It’s been proven.

The novelist’s skill is certainly very different to that of the columnist. One is a marathon requiring planning, pace and commitment; the other is an intense sprint. The skill involved in producing 500 words of magazine copy does not always expand to produce the novel’s warehouse of words.

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The dice is even more loaded against Ms Waugh as she’s the daughter and granddaughter of very successful writers. But as any of you who have read Game of Thrones will know, blood alone does not guarantee anything.

This book is quite a combination. The two central characters, Max and Eleanor Beecham are a movie director and his even more famous wife. At their fabulous annual supper party they entertain real-life long-dead luminaries like Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Gary Cooper and Gloria Swanson, and so on.

But behind the tinkle of champagne glasses, Max and Eleanor are not (gasp!) what they seem. They have a past with secrets and stuff, and they’re both having affairs. And as the story is set in 1929, guess what, the stock market crashes.

And it just goes downhill from there. No strand of the story is convincing or engaging. It’s all as obvious as Ryan Tubridy’s interviewing technique, and just about as interesting. Cliches and stereotypes are thrown around like snuff at a wake, and the author’s powers of observation seem to have left her; perhaps sent in error to the charity shop, along with the breast pump.

Margaret Hannigan

International

Unions seek Colombian justice The recent arrest of a prominent Colombian trade unionist has thrust the country’s appalling human rights record back into the international spotlight. SIOBHAN CURRAN reports.

COLOMBIA IS once again on the lips of trade unionists across the world, and for all the wrong reasons. Brutal violence is being meted out to rural peasants who are exercising their right to protest and strike.

British trade unions set up Justice for Colombia (JFC) in response to the appalling human rights crisis and Irish trade unions have set up an Irish branch to help raise awareness and garner support here.

Agrarian organisations, students, teachers, miners, transport and health workers are among the groups that have been on strike since mid-August to demand social and economic reform from a Government that’s running the country for the benefit of national and transnational elites.

Arrest

They want an agrarian policy to feed the people of Colombia, social investment in infrastructure and services for the benefit of local communities, a review of environmentally destructive mining policies, a review of free trade agreements that are hurting ordinary people, and an end to the militarisation of the countryside.

Paramilitaries This militarisation has brought devastation to working communities. The right-wing paramilitary groups that roam the countryside act with impunity in a state where the judicial system seems only interested in prosecuting human rights defenders and trade union activists.

The organisation International Rights Advocates has brought a number of lawsuits against major US corporations like Coca-Cola, Chiquita, Nestlé and the Drummond mining company, who stand accused of hiring right-wing paramilitary groups to kill and intimidate union leaders in contravention of US laws designed to hold corporations accountable for human rights violations abroad.

These armed groups are responsible for Colombia’s unenviable reputation as the most dangerous country in the world for trade unionists, virtually on an annual basis.

According to the US trade union federation AFL-CIO (the equivalent of our Irish Congress of Trade Unions) roughly 4,000 Colombian trade unionists have been murdered in the past 20 years. The International Trade Union Confederation reports that 29 were murdered in 2011 alone. It is within this volatile climate that Colombian trade unions continue to campaign for justice and seek international solidarity.

Tensions have escalated since 25th August when trade union leader Huber Ballesteros was arrested. Huber has worked with JFC for years. Last July, he met a JFC-led delegation of trade unionists and politicians from Britain, Ireland, Canada and the US, and he was due to speak at the British Trade Union Congress in September.

Ballesteros was involved in organising the recent strikes and protests in his role as national organiser of the ‘Patriotic March,’ the movement for change in Colombia. This progressive social and political movement has had hundreds of thousands of people on the streets and is seen as a new cohesive organisation for both rural and urban working class in Colombia.

Outrage His high profile arrest won’t come as a surprise to some, but his continued detention has helped push the human rights crisis in Colombia back into the international spotlight with a successful awareness campaign being launched in Britain and Ireland. Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary David Begg has written to President Santos to communicate our outrage at Huber’s arrest and call for his immediate release.

JFC is now calling on the international community to support its call for an end to the persecution of trade unionists in Colombia.

Read about IMPACT’s support for Colombian human rights campaigners on page 16. Sign the petition and join the Justice for Colombia campaign via www.justiceforcolom bia.org.

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The purpose of the scheme is to financially assist IMPACT members to participate in certified educational courses, up to degree level, that help them to better carry out the role of union representative. While the course content does not have to be exclusively related to industrial relations or trade union matters, the primary or substantive purpose or content of the course (and not just incidental material) must assist in achieving the grants scheme objective.

Grants to successful applicants are based on the gross cost to them of the course fees, subject to a maximum cost of €3,000 per annum. Applicants must be current paid up members of IMPACT. Courses designed primarily or substantially to provide or enhance qualifications to assist in the member’s normal, or proposed alternative, professional development or career are not covered by this scheme. Masters degrees and other postgraduate qualifications are not covered by this scheme.

All applications are considered by the union’s Membership Services Committee. The Committee then makes recommendations, based on the scheme criteria, to the union’s Central Executive Committee.

How to apply Go to www.impact.ie for terms and conditions and application forms.

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Which households should be taxed more, according to NERI? A 100% B The top 10% by earnings C The bottom 90% by earnings.

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What percentage of Sports Direct staff have zeor hour contracts?

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We’ll send €50 to the first correct entry pulled from a hat.

Winners!

The winners from competitions in the summer/autumn issue were:

Crossword: Pamela Ryan, Kerry Quiz: Stephen McCabe, DIY Survey: Valerie O’Connell, Probation

Lots more competitions to enter in this issue!

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Commercial membership services MPACT has facilitated the provision of a number of national membership services and discount schemes on behalf of its members. These include Additional Voluntary Contribution Schemes (Pensions), Life Assurance, Salary Protection in the case of illness and Car, House and Travel Insurance Schemes. A number of local discount schemes are also negotiated by local branches.

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The Union uses the size and composition of its membership base and, where possible, competition between the various service providers, to seek the best possible deals for the widest possible sections of our membership. It is probable that the majority of members will get better value from these schemes than if they sought the same service individually. However, this will not be true in all cases and there will be occasions where individual members may, because of their specific circumstances, be able to get better value elsewhere. It is not possible always to ensure that all schemes will be accessible equally to all members and the scheme underwriters will not depart totally from their normal actuarial or risk assessment procedures and rules.

IMPACT does not make any claims as to the quality or reliability of any of these products/services and while advising members of the availability of the National Membership Services and Discount Schemes does not endorse or recommend any particular product or service. IMPACT's role is that of facilitator to ensure that such schemes are available to its members. All contracts are directly between the product/service provider and the individual member. IMPACT is not in any way a party to these contracts and will not accept any responsibility or liability arising from any act or omission on the part of the product or service provider. Neither IMPACT nor any member of its staff receives any fees or commissions or other rewards from these product or service providers arising from such schemes.

While IMPACT does occasionally provide such product/service providers with limited information regarding IMPACT branch and/or workplace representatives for the purpose of advertising such schemes, the Union does not make any personal data relating to individual Union members available to them for any purpose.

The Union requires that product/service providers agree to ensure that all such schemes comply with all lawful requirements including the Equal Status Act 2000.

Advertisements for agreed membership services will have an

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logo on them.

Some of the companies providing agreed membership services may offer other products or services (that are not as a result of any agreement or arrangement with IMPACT) directly to IMPACT members.

The Union has no role whatsoever in relation to such products or services. Likewise, other product or service providers may make offers directly to IMPACT members through advertisements in the Union newspaper or otherwise. These do not arise as a result of agreements or arrangements with IMPACT and the Union does not ask members to consider availing of such products/services and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any such offers.

The product/service providers with which IMPACT has agreed the provision of membership services and/or discount schemes are as follows: Brassington & Co. Ltd.

Cornmarket Group Financial Services Ltd.

Travel Insurance – all Divisions.

Car Insurance – all Divisions.

Salary Protection and Life Assurance –

Local Government and Health Divisions only.

Group Insurance Services (GIS)

Marsh Financial Services Ltd.

Car Insurance – all Divisions.

AVC Schemes – all Divisions excluding Municipal Employees.

House Insurance – all Divisions.

Salary Protection and Life Assurance – Civil Service and Services & Enterprises Divisions only.

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