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1. The Sunday Times : The State should reward women, not treat them as second class citizens
Excerpt: …I was due to have the annual feminist lunch next week with the late Nuala Fennell. Last year, our lunch group comprised Nuala, Mary Kenny and Mairin de Burca. Before we got down to the business of gossip, we asked each other the ritual questions. "Anybody been appointed to a…
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2. Drogheda Independent : Interest in ‘Spot the Woman’ initiative
Excerpt: …NEW initiative entitled 'Spot the Woman' is set to become an issue in Europe - all thanks to a meeting at the d Hotel in Drogheda!As part of the visit of the European Commission Vice President Margot Wallstrom to Louth on Friday, a meeting of women's groups took place and…
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3. Irish Examiner : Women’s lobby revolts against Child Benefit Cuts
Excerpt: …A PUBLIC campaign to fight the Government's plans to cut child benefit is to be escalated by the lobby representing 300,000 women.The revolt by the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) will pile pressure on the Government after it meets tomorrow to consider the contents of the Commission on Taxation's…
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4. Irish Times : Bank drops ‘exotic’ dancers scheme
Excerpt: …MANAGEMENT AT Ulster Bank were yesterday forced to withdraw a promotion in which students were offered tickets for an "exotic" show for opening a new account.First year students at the Institute of Technology Tallaght in south Dublin were also offered €100 in their student account.View full article »
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Excerpt: …Speaking at the launch of the National Women's Council of Ireland's "No Going Back" campaign last night, Sallyann Kinahan, deputy general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, said that those making decisions in this country were overwhelmingly "male, over 55 and have a view on women's role that…
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6. Irish Times : Ulster Bank drops exotic offer
Excerpt: …Ulster Bank was today forced to withdraw a promotion in which students were offered tickets for an "exotic" show for opening a new account.First year students at the Institute of Technology Tallaght in south Dublin were also offered €100 in their student account. View full article »
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7. Irish Times : Cut in Child Benefit may ‘force’ low paid women out of work
Excerpt: …REDUCING OR taxing child benefit could force women on low pay out of work as they would not be able to meet childcare costs, the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) said last night.Maintaining universal child benefit at current levels was just one of the recommendations in the council's pre-budget…
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8. Irish Independent : Child allowance cut now likely as taxing option is too difficult
Excerpt: …CHILD benefit payments look increasingly likely to be cut in the next Budget.The Commission on Taxation has recommended that the payment be taxed, but it acknowledges that there are huge difficulties in taxing the benefit.View full article »
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Excerpt: NWCI Pre-Budget Submission 2010
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10. irish Times : New gender ratio for medicine defended
Excerpt: …THERE WAS "no great sinister plot" in the changed gender ratio in offers for medical degree courses, the head of academic medicine at Trinity College Dublin has said.Prof Shaun McCann was defending his support for the 52 female to 48 male ratio in medical place offers as a result of…
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11. Irish Times : Families to protest over child benefit
Excerpt: …Families are to hold a protest march over the Commission on Taxation's proposal to tax child benefit on Saturday, Setptember 19th.The march is being organised by the Protest Against Child Unfriendly Budget (PACUB) and Alliance Against Cuts groups and will start from Parnell Square North in Dublin at 1pm.View full…
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12. Irish Times : Poor Can’t Pay Campaign Launched
Excerpt: …TRADE UNIONS and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) have formed a joint campaign group to oppose proposed cuts in social welfare payments or the minimum wage.The move was prompted by measures outlined in the recent McCarthy group report on potential Government savings, and by indications from senior Ministers that they would…
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Excerpt: …Women will resist budgetary cuts which, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI), would dismantle rights for which Irish women have struggled for generations. The NWCI says that cutbacks proposed in the McCarthy report, along with others which pre-dated it, would push women out of the workforce and…
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15. Irish Examiner : Comment: Tax troubles really cook Cowen’s goose
Excerpt: …THE art of taxation was compared by the finance minister of King Louis XIV to plucking a goose: the aim is to get the most feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.After fattening up during the Celtic Tiger years, it appears taxpayers will be plucked from all sides in…
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16. Now more than ever, families need Child Benefit: NWCI release briefing paper : August 19, 2009
Excerpt: …The government must leave Child Benefit alone and abandon plans to cut, means test or tax it, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI). The NWCI has just published a briefing paper on Child Benefit entitled: 'All Our Children'. The NWCI represents a broad range of women's groups…
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17. Fair play, says NWCI, and can we have some more of it?
Excerpt: …The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) is amazed by the government's ability to address gender imbalance among would-be medical students, considering its extreme reluctance to address such imbalance in other areas. 'Might this perhaps have something to do with the fact that it was males who were losing out…
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Excerpt: …This paper is presented to inform the decision-making process with regard to Child Benefit in the Budget 2010 and to inform the debate surrounding the proposals that have been made by and to Government.
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19. Evening Herald : Women’s leader hits back over ‘uncouth’ McGurk’s radio tirade
Excerpt: …The Director of the National Women's Council has criticised broadcaster Tom McGurk for an "uncouth and objectionable" interview.Susan McKay was invited on the 4fm show to discuss whether there should be more women in Government.View full article »
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20. The Western People : Sexism and Bullying on the Political Trail - is a quota system the answer?
Excerpt: …MAYO politicians have backed calls from the National Women's Council (NWCI) for a quota system of female election candidates.The NWCI are demanding legislative action to compel parties to put forward an equal number of female candidates, in winnable seats in time to influence the next general election. The council said…
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