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Published: Sunday, May 25, 2025
The Repeal of the 8th amendment on this day (25th May) seven years ago marked a milestone in women’s access to reproductive rights in Ireland. However, around 240 women still travel to the UK from Ireland every year to...
Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009
I am delighted to have been invited to launch the new website of the National Womens Council of Ireland. There was a bit of slagging amongst some friends wondering how one launches a website. Slamming a bottle of bubbly against...
Published: Friday, October 16, 2009
"I'm not a feminist, but..." is the name of the Guerrilla Girls' latest exhibition, currently showing in Portadown's Millennium Court Art Centre, under the dynamic curatorship of Megan Johnston. The Girls, who call themselves "the conscience of the art world"...
Published: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Next Monday, 19th October 2009, the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) will launch 'Who Cares? Challenging the Myths about Gender and Care in Ireland', and will also unveil its new-look website, with a new womanly logo by designer Alison Burns...
Published: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
AS a separated father, I was surprised but delighted to read the letter 'Why are working mothers blamed?' by Myria Vassiliadou, Secretary General of the European Women's Lobby (Irish Independent October 7).On its website, the European Women's Lobby claims...
Three quarters of the world's internally displaced persons and refugees are women, a seminar on Women in Armed Conflict was told in Dublin on 14 October. Kenyan social worker Caroline Munyi, who works with the Aikidwa organisation, said that women play...
Published: Monday, October 12, 2009
Launch of the NWCI Pre-Budget Submission :''While women have contributed significantly to Ireland's economic success, they have not experienced the benefits of that success'' stated Orla O'Connor, Head of Policy at the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI), launching the...
Published: Friday, October 09, 2009
THE GOVERNMENT cannot get the finances of the country right without in some way making savings in the social welfare budget, Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin has said.Speaking at a pre-budget forum for representatives of voluntary...
Published: Thursday, October 08, 2009
The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) called on Minister for Social Family and Affairs, Mary Hanifan, TD not to cut Child Benefit in the forthcoming Budget, at the Department's Pre-Budget 2010 Forum in Dublin today (Friday 9th October, 09)According to...
Published: Monday, October 05, 2009
A LEAFLET highlighting facts about breast cancer will be delivered to more than three-quarters of a million households across the country next week.Breast cancer advocacy group Europa Donna Ireland received funding of €105,000 from the National Lottery to print 790,000 leaflets...
Published: Sunday, October 04, 2009
Senator Ivana Bacik5th October 2009Last Wednesday, at a protest against cutbacks outside the Dáil, Susan McKay of the National Women's Council made a speech which provoked some controversy. I was at the protest and heard her say, accurately,...
Published: Thursday, October 01, 2009
More men than women have lost their jobs during the downturn, particularly in the construction sector - and please let no one pretend that working on the sites in all weathers is somehow easier than cleaning the Dáil, especially...
Published: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
PROTESTANTS AND Catholics have markedly different views on the question of individual rights and the need to protect them, the McCluskey Civil Rights Summer School was told.Dr John Kyle, a Belfast councillor and member of the Progressive Unionist Party,...
Women in Clare will be left without a voice if the Clare Women's Network is forced to close because of Government cutbacks, the director of the National Women's Council of Ireland, Susan McKay has warned.View full article »
Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Susan McKay, Director of the NWCI speaking from the platform of today's national march of community workers, employers and activists, protesting against proposed cuts to community projects across the country, said 'Women didn't get the power or the wealth during...
Cutbacks proposed in the McCarthy report, along with others which pre-dated it, would push women out of the workforce and into welfare dependency and poverty, Susan McKay, director of the National Women's Council of Ireland, said today.She was speaking...
Thousands of community workers, employers and activists took to the streets of Dublin.The Communities against Cuts campaign said an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people marched from Parnell Square to Molesworth Street before holding a rally outside the Dáil. Women's groups...
A very proud and particular welcome from the National Women's Council of Welcome to all of the women here today - Mothers, sisters, wives, partners daughters - Mna na hEirinn out to rock the world again.There never would have...
Published: Sunday, September 20, 2009
SOME 1,500 people marched in protest at proposed Government cuts and the planned National Assets Management Agency (Nama), in Dublin at the weekend.One of a series of protests, it was supported by Sinn Féin, the People Before Profit Alliance,...
Published: Saturday, September 19, 2009
SOME 11,000 parents and other concerned citizens have signed a petition against any change in the child benefit allowance.In both online and handwritten petitions which are addressed to Taoiseach Brian Cowen, the families say that they oppose the introduction of...
Published: Friday, September 18, 2009
PRESSURE group for the rights of women has called for a quota system to bring more women into politics at local level after the local elections saw a slide in the number of women councillors nationwide.A survey by the...
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