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1. Irish Times : 1,500 protest over cuts and NAMA
Excerpt: …SOME 1,500 people marched in protest at proposed Government cuts and the planned National Assets Management Agency (Nama), in Dublin at the weekend.One of a series of protests, it was supported by Sinn Féin, the People Before Profit Alliance, a number of socialist groups, trade unions, striking workers and several…
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2. Irish Times : 11,000 sign Child Benefit allowance petition
Excerpt: …SOME 11,000 parents and other concerned citizens have signed a petition against any change in the child benefit allowance.In both online and handwritten petitions which are addressed to Taoiseach Brian Cowen, the families say that they oppose the introduction of means testing or taxation or reduction of the universal payment.View…
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3. The Fingal Independent : Call for more women to enter politics
Excerpt: …PRESSURE group for the rights of women has called for a quota system to bring more women into politics at local level after the local elections saw a slide in the number of women councillors nationwide.A survey by the National Women's Council (NWC) has found that some female candidates were…
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4. Irish Times : Thousands protest over NAMA cuts
Excerpt: …Up to 2,000 people marched in Dublin yesterday in protest at proposed Government cuts and the planned National Assets Management Agency (Nama).The protest was supported by Sinn Féin, the People Before Profit Alliance, a number of socialist groups, trade unions, striking workers and several anti-Lisbon groups.View full article »
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5. European Commission Website : EU President Jose Manuel Barrosso visits Limerick
Excerpt: …European Commission President José Manuel Barroso will be in Limerick today (Saturday) where he will have the opportunity to meet with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs and the city's Mayor and to engage in open discussion with students at the University and with civil society groups.View full article…
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6. Labour Party Website : Lisbon has the potential to improve women’s lives
Excerpt: …Speaking at a National Women's Council of Ireland meeting in the Mansion House Dublin on the Lisbon Treaty this morning, Dublin Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa said the treaty contained a number of specific measures that had the potential to improve women's lives.Mr De Rossa said: "Gender equality has been…
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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