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All Aboard – Public transport must be accessible to all

Published: Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Most of our trips in Ireland are taken by car, but 68% of all trips are for distances of less than 10km. (National Household Travel Survey (2023) Providing active and public transport is key to tackling the climate emergency but to achieve...

Mary McAleese chairs Women’s Assembly on future of the island of Ireland

Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2025

50 women thought leaders from across the island of Ireland gathered in Dublin today (Tuesday, 11th February) to explore and elevate women’s perspectives on the future of the island of Ireland through a feminist lens. The gathering was the...

Missing women will impact the quality of our political decision

Published: Friday, February 07, 2025

The National Women’s Council (NWC) today (7th February) welcomed the nomination of 7 women by the Taoiseach to the Seanad as a step to address women’s underrepresentation in our Oireachtas. However, the overall picture...

WMHN to shine light on how physical health conditions can adversely impact women’s mental health

Published: Thursday, January 30, 2025

On Wednesday, 29 January, the Women’s Mental Health Network, a collaboration between St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and the National Women’s Council (NWC), is hosting an event to explore the intersection between long-term physical health...

National Women’s Council expresses disappointment at gender imbalance in Irish Government

Published: Thursday, January 30, 2025

The National Women’s Council (NWC) today expressed its deep disappointment at the significant gender imbalance in the new Government. There are only six women amongst the record number of 23 Junior Ministers. This follows the decision to decrease the...

Public childcare must be a priority for the next Government

Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Alliance of over 40 organisations reminds newly elected TDs of their election promises 18th December 2024 Under the slogan ‘All we want for Christmas is public childcare’, the campaign alliance, Together for Public, gathered outside Leinster House today (Wednesday, 18th...

Call for gender quotas at local level and at Cabinet

Published: Friday, December 13, 2024

The Gender Quotas Alliance has written to all new TDs, party leaders, and General Secretaries to call for urgent action on women’s representation in politics. The alliance, which is led by the National Women’s Council (NWC)...

Pension auto-enrolment fails to tackle inequality in our pension system for women

Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2024

While the forthcoming pension auto-enrolment scheme will increase pension coverage, it will not address the structural inequalities faced by women in our pension system and may even make them worse. This is one of the key findings of a new...

A warm home should not be a luxury: Feminist Communities for Climate Justice hosts webinar on energy

Published: Thursday, December 05, 2024

Feminist Communities for Climate Justice (FCCJ) – a joint project between the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Community Work Ireland (CWI) – today (5th December) hosted a webinar Safe, Warm, Green: Towards Energy Justice that highlighted the gendered...

No breakthrough for women in General Election 2024

Published: Monday, December 02, 2024

No breakthrough for women in General Election 2024 National Women’s Council calls for Local Election gender quotas to ensure pipeline for women into politics Press Release, 2nd December 2024 Responding to the results of the...

Women’s organisations call for cross-border cooperation to tackle domestic violence

Published: Tuesday, November 26, 2024

National Women’s Council and Women’s Aid Federation NI launch new report examining the issue of domestic violence across the island 26 November Today (26 November) the National Women’s Council (NWC) and Women’s Aid...

Women For Election and the National Women’s Council to host joint pre-election hustings

Published: Thursday, November 21, 2024

The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC) and Women for Election are calling on general election candidates to commit to increasing women’s representation in the next Dáil term. NWC have highlighted 10 key asks for...

National Women’s Council: General Election is historic opportunity to improve women’s representation

Published: Friday, November 15, 2024

Gender Quota leads to record number of women running in General Election 2024 Ahead of the close of nominations for the General Election tomorrow (16th November), the National Women’s Council (NWC) today (15th November) welcomed the record number of...

Students graduate from first ever third-level course on the impact of climate on women & communities

Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2024

12 November 2024 What impact does climate change have on communities in Ireland, particularly women and marginalised communities. That’s the question posed by the Community Work in a Changing Ireland certificate programme with a new focus on feminist climate justice....

Childcare key issue for women and families in GE24 says NWC

Published: Monday, November 11, 2024

The National Women’s Council today launches our manifesto for women in General Election 2024 The National Women’s Council is today (Monday 11 November) launching our feminist vision for an Ireland that advances women’s equality and protects...

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