Ireland falls further behind in the proportion of women in Parliament I am honoured to be here today to celebrate International Women’s Day and to support this project which is making such a contribution to community life.
It is a natural link.
Women have led and nourished community development in Ireland both historically and in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Eire’
9 April 2008
Kathleen Lynch TD, Ireland’s Labour Party Spokesperson on Equality speech on International Women’s Day
9 April 2008
Labour Women in Ireland launch International Womens’ Day poster
Sinead Ni Chulachain, Labour Women Chair, speaking ahead of the International Women’s Day on 8th March highlighted the fact that 18 per cent of the world’s parliamentarians are women, 82 per cent of the world’s decision makers are man. In Ireland the situation is worse – only 13 per cent of our TDs are women.
She [...]
3 April 2008
Flying start to Women’s Day in Wicklow
People in Arklow on Saturday may have thought they were seeing things when a flock of white doves were released into the air.
This unusual display, however was to celebrate International Women’s Day and to mark the launch of a new information leaflet about domestic violence.
Organised by Arklow CDP, the event was aimed at raising awareness [...]
12 March 2008
“I feel like a bird in a cage, with broken wings. I feel I am in an open prison, though with no bars.”
These words are not the lyrics of a song. Neither are they a verse from a poem. Rather, they are a description of how a young mother feels day after day. She lives in County Mayo and is a medical doctor.
Last Friday afternoon, along with a number of other women, she addressed an audience in [...]
