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Published: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
“I said, this is my second baby, and the nurse said to me, oh my God you’re not like the rest of them, at least you have got yourself on contraception” Patricia, Traveller women focus group ...
Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010
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Reviewing women's political representation in Ireland will be the focus of a conference taking place at UCC next month. UCC Women's Studies in conjunction with the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) will present the one day conference 'Moving in...
Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Madeline Hawke is a member of the Irish Feminist Network
AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman is organising a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass "by the faithful women of Ireland" next month.Jennifer Sleeman from Clonakilty in Cork said she wants "to let the Vatican and the Irish church know that women are...
Anticipating the appointment in the next few weeks of the highest-level United Nations official ever to promote the rights and status of women worldwide, peace advocates are demanding that the new office take on the issue of the unending violence...
Published: Monday, August 09, 2010
Rape is one of the world's greatest peace and security challenges, a senior United Nations official said today, adding that rape in times of conflict remains one of the least-condemned war crimes, leading to impunity for perpetrators.Rape "is not...
The women's rights campaign group yesterday said there was public concern after reports that there was no surveillance planned of the Wicklow sex offender once he walks free in two days' time.NWCI chief executive Susan McKay also said there...
Published: Friday, August 06, 2010
As the debate gathers pace across Europe on the practice of Muslim women wearing headscarves and full-face veils - known as niqab - The Irish Times speaks to five women who wear the niqab in IrelandAISHA CHUCKLES as she tells...
Published: Thursday, August 05, 2010
In 2008, 86% of solo museum exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art were of male artists. It is not that there are no women around. Solo exhibitions by women at IMMA represented 44% of the total in 2004, so there has been...
Senator Ivana Bacik - OPINION: The Senator, who has championed gender quotas in the selection of political candidates, responds to yesterday's Irish Times survey which found that a big majority of women TDs are against the ideaMARY MINIHAN'S survey of...
Published: Tuesday, August 03, 2010
A Malaysian state is to allow Muslim girls under the age of consent of 16 years to wed in a bid to stem unwed pregnancies, angering the country's women's activists and politicians.The Islamic council in the southern Malaysian state of...
The National Women's Council has criticised women TDs who oppose measures to correct the extreme under representation of women in Dail Eireann. "The reasons why so few women make it into political power in Ireland and elsewhere have been well...
Published: Monday, August 02, 2010
Another grim tale by Ciara Moynihan of the Mayo NewsDespite the seasonal upswing, the hotel industry remains in a desperate state. According to an Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) survey conducted this year, 88 per cent of hoteliers were concerned about the...
Published: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Susan McKay, CEO of National Women's Council of IrelandOne day last week, in an Irish city, a woman met her husband's psychiatrist. The husband had been violent and abusive towards the woman throughout their marriage. He was attending the...
Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Irish Traveller Movement (ITM) is a national Traveller organisation that promotes the recognition of Travellers as a nomadic ethnic group in Irish society.ITM is recruiting for the following position:Community Development Worker for Co. Cavan. - Full time...
The Fair Hotels campaign is an initiative of hotel workers and their trade union representatives. Fair Hotels are hotels that treat their staff fairly. Our objective is to support and promote quality employment in the hotel industry in Ireland by...
Below are extracts from the second stage speeches on the Bill made by Aengus and his party colleague Martin Ferris. Aengus focused on youth unemployment while Martin focused on the one parent payment scheme. alternatively you can view Aengus' speech...
Banking interests make representations to legislators, but there is no organised counter analysis, writes Eithne Reid O'Doherty*SOCIETIES ARE at a crossroads. The survival of democracy itself is being questioned due to the present financial instability, increased nationalism, protectionism and...
"The Immigrant Council of Ireland invites you to this year's Mothers & Daughters lunch on 17th of September at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.This event is an excellent opportunity to support the ICI to raise...
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