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Excerpt: …NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF IRELANDPRESS STATEMENTFor immediate releaseThursday 05.11.09 Women ready and willing to bring an end to Gentlemen's Club politics, says National Women's Council of Ireland."Women are ready, willing and able to enter and change the Gentlemen's Club that is Dail Eireann," said the director of the National Women's…
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3. Conference hears benefits to criminalising purchase of sex
Excerpt: …Breaking NewsConference hears benefits to criminalising purchase of sex05/11/2009 - 09:52:43A major conference on sex trafficking being held in Dublin this week has heard that the only way to end the exploitation of women is to criminalise the buyers of sex. International approaches to policing sex trafficking are being discussed…
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4. CAMA Community Asset Management Agency Established
Excerpt: …Click here to view the proclamation in PDF format.The Community Development Alliance has set up a new agency to protect the most vulnerable people in Ireland. CAMA aims to protect the Community Development Projects that are being closed down at a time when their services are most needed. Community Development…
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5. Irish Politics a Gentleman’s Club?
Excerpt: …PRESS STATEMENTFor immediate releaseWednesday 04.11.09 IRISH POLITICS A GENTLEMAN'S CLUB? The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) today urged immediate action on the introduction of gender quotas for women in politics. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution are currently undertaking a Review of the Electoral System for the Election…
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6. Fury as top golf club wins battle to keep women out, Irish Independent, 4th November 2009
Excerpt: …A leading golf club was last night accused of enforcing 19th century rules after it won a legal bid refusing women full membership.The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the Equality Authority and ruled by a majority of three to two that Portmarnock Golf Club in north Dublin was a…
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7. National Women’s Council urges members to support national protest
Excerpt: …FAO: Dublin Region SIPTU & IMPACT members, community workers & activists. National Protest: Dublin Community Sector Assembly - Friday 6th November, 1.30pm, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Sean Mc Dermot St, Dublin 1. Communities Against CutsGet Up, Stand Up for a better, fairer way Workers and communities are being attacked…
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8. NWCI supports European Women’s Lobby’s Open Letter to EU Heads of State & Government
Excerpt: …Press ReleaseIssuing organization: The European Women's Lobby (EWL) Open letter to the EU Heads of State and Government ahead of the 29-30 October Brussels European Council -Is democratic representation of both women and men too much to ask for in 21st Century Europe? Dear European Heads of State and Government,We,…
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9. ‘Padded Cell & Other Stories’ Mannix Flynn opens new exhibition in Dublin
Excerpt: …Adifferentkettleoffishaltogether.There will be no false apology on any monument to those incarcerated in Irish institutions where brutal child abuse was practised, vowed Mannix Flynn at the launch of his new exhibition, "Padded Cell and Other Stories", in Dublin last night. He was referring to proposals that the former Taoiseach, Bertie…
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Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) joined PACUB (Parents Against Child Unfriendly Budget) at Leinster House this morning to hand over 15,000 signatures to An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen T.D, opposing any cuts or changes to child benefit.'The National Women's Council is delighted to join PACUB today to strongly oppose…
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11. NWCI Director, Susan McKay talks to Prime Time about the increase in domestic violence
Excerpt: …NWCI Director, Susan McKay talks to Prime Time about the sharp increase in the incidence of domestic violence as a result of the recession and the funding threats facing services for women and children trying to escape violence in the home."Because women and children who have been abused in their…
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12. NWCI launches new website and enters the YouTube Era
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland has joined the age of YouTube with an exclusive new poem by renowned poet Rita Ann Higgins. "The Darkness" is a hilarious and penetrating look at Ireland's current economic chaos and is featured on the newly launched NWCI website. "The National Women's Council is…
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13. Work in home leaves women worse off, Report, Irish Times, 20th October 2009
Excerpt: …THE NOTION that work in the home is becoming evenly distributed among the sexes is a myth, the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) has said, with women responsible for 86 per cent of child supervision, 82 per cent of care of adults and 80 per cent of cooking.The disproportionate…
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14. NWCI launches new care publication
Excerpt: …'Who Cares? Challenging the myths about gender and care in Ireland' describes the reality of care work for women and men in Ireland today. Despite the improved position of women in Irish society, care work still remains the primary responsibility of women. The unequal distribution of care work between women…
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15. Exclusive to NWCI website, Rita Ann Higgins launches her new poem, The Darkness
Excerpt: …Exclusive to our website, Rita Ann Higgins launches her new poem, The Darkness, a hilariously barbed take on our Republic's current political chaos. One of Ireland's favourite poets, rita ann first read the poem at the National Women's Council's public meeting to launch the No Going Back campaign last month.It…
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16. Speech by Emma O’Kelly at NWCI Website & Care Publication Launch
Excerpt: …19 October 2009 I'm delighted to have been asked to launch this document. Delighted because I love statistics and I think its really important that data such as that contained in this document is gathered and made accessible.I read the document on Friday and over the weekend I was thinking…
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17. Speech by Suzy Byrne/Maman Poulet at NWCI Website & Care Publication Launch, 19 Oct 09
Excerpt: …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 a laptop or cutting a red power lead didn't seem…
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Excerpt: …"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" came to Dublin at the end of September as part…
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20. National Women’s Council of Ireland launch new publication, new website, new look
Excerpt: …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.The website features an exclusive poem from renowned Irish poet…
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