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Published: Thursday, July 10, 2025
The National Women’s Council today launches Pre-Budget Submission for Budget 2026 The National Women’s Council has called on the Government to seize the opportunity of its first Budget to deliver a bold, feminist vision for the future....
Published: Friday, November 06, 2009
On Friday the 6th November the National Women's Council of Ireland and its members throughout Ireland took part in the ICTU Get Up Stand Up Protest marches. We called on Government to protect women, families and communities and to recognize...
Published: Thursday, November 05, 2009
Published: Wednesday, November 04, 2009
NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF IRELANDPRESS STATEMENTFor immediate releaseThursday 05.11.09 Women ready and willing to bring an end to Gentlemen's Club politics, says National Women's Council of Ireland."Women are ready, willing and able to enter and change the Gentlemen's Club that...
Breaking NewsConference hears benefits to criminalising purchase of sex05/11/2009 - 09:52:43A major conference on sex trafficking being held in Dublin this week has heard that the only way to end the exploitation of women is to criminalise the buyers of...
Click here to view the proclamation in PDF format.The Community Development Alliance has set up a new agency to protect the most vulnerable people in Ireland. CAMA aims to protect the Community Development Projects that are being closed down...
Published: Tuesday, November 03, 2009
PRESS STATEMENTFor immediate releaseWednesday 04.11.09 IRISH POLITICS A GENTLEMAN'S CLUB? The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) today urged immediate action on the introduction of gender quotas for women in politics. The Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution are currently undertaking...
A leading golf club was last night accused of enforcing 19th century rules after it won a legal bid refusing women full membership.The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the Equality Authority and ruled by a majority of three...
Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
FAO: Dublin Region SIPTU & IMPACT members, community workers & activists. National Protest: Dublin Community Sector Assembly - Friday 6th November, 1.30pm, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Sean Mc Dermot St, Dublin 1. Communities Against CutsGet Up, Stand Up for a...
Published: Monday, October 26, 2009
Press ReleaseIssuing organization: The European Women's Lobby (EWL) Open letter to the EU Heads of State and Government ahead of the 29-30 October Brussels European Council -Is democratic representation of both women and men too much to ask for in 2...
Published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Adifferentkettleoffishaltogether.There will be no false apology on any monument to those incarcerated in Irish institutions where brutal child abuse was practised, vowed Mannix Flynn at the launch of his new exhibition, "Padded Cell and Other Stories", in Dublin last...
Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) joined PACUB (Parents Against Child Unfriendly Budget) at Leinster House this morning to hand over 15,000 signatures to An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen T.D, opposing any cuts or changes to child benefit.'The National...
NWCI Director, Susan McKay talks to Prime Time about the sharp increase in the incidence of domestic violence as a result of the recession and the funding threats facing services for women and children trying to escape violence in the...
The National Women's Council of Ireland has joined the age of YouTube with an exclusive new poem by renowned poet Rita Ann Higgins. "The Darkness" is a hilarious and penetrating look at Ireland's current economic chaos and is featured on...
Published: Monday, October 19, 2009
THE NOTION that work in the home is becoming evenly distributed among the sexes is a myth, the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) has said, with women responsible for 86 per cent of child supervision, 82 per cent of care of...
Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009
'Who Cares? Challenging the myths about gender and care in Ireland' describes the reality of care work for women and men in Ireland today. Despite the improved position of women in Irish society, care work still remains the primary responsibility...
Exclusive to our website, Rita Ann Higgins launches her new poem, The Darkness, a hilariously barbed take on our Republic's current political chaos. One of Ireland's favourite poets, rita ann first read the poem at the National Women's Council's public...
19 October 2009 I'm delighted to have been asked to launch this document. Delighted because I love statistics and I think its really important that data such as that contained in this document is gathered and made accessible.I read the document...
I am delighted to have been invited to launch the new website of the National Womens Council of Ireland. There was a bit of slagging amongst some friends wondering how one launches a website. Slamming a bottle of bubbly against...
Published: Friday, October 16, 2009
"I'm not a feminist, but..." is the name of the Guerrilla Girls' latest exhibition, currently showing in Portadown's Millennium Court Art Centre, under the dynamic curatorship of Megan Johnston. The Girls, who call themselves "the conscience of the art world"...
Published: Thursday, October 15, 2009
Next Monday, 19th October 2009, the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) will launch 'Who Cares? Challenging the Myths about Gender and Care in Ireland', and will also unveil its new-look website, with a new womanly logo by designer Alison Burns...
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