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The Western People : Sexism and Bullying on the Political Trail - is a quota system the answer?

Published: Thursday, August 06, 2009

MAYO politicians have backed calls from the National Women's Council (NWCI) for a quota system of female election candidates.The NWCI are demanding legislative action to compel parties to put forward an equal number of female candidates, in winnable seats...

Irish Times : Men in suits happy to keep Irish women in pyjamas

Published: Tuesday, August 04, 2009

MAYBE THE Government should just abandon the National Women's Strategy (NWS) and spend the small change it saves on the Pyjamas for Women Measure (PWM). Then it could implement the "Bord Snip" report in its full savage entirety and be...

Irish Times : A complex discussion? You’ve got just a minute.

Published: Friday, July 31, 2009

Wednesday's McGurk On Four (4FM, weekdays). Tom McGurk spoke to, at and over Susan McKay, director of the National Women's Council of Ireland. More women in government, she said, would help represent the interests of women and society as a...

Irish Independent : O’Rourke rejects call for female candidate quotas

Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

FORMER cabinet minister Mary O'Rourke last night disagreed with a call from the National Women's Council (NWCI) for a quota system of female election candidates.Ms O'Rourke also says she has never experienced sexism on the doorsteps, despite reports by...

Irish Examiner : Women’s groups call for end to political gender gap

Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

POLITICAL parties should be forced to run an equal number of male and female candidates in future elections, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland.Speaking after the launch of a damning National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI) survey...

Irish Independent : Families and elderly to bear brunt of swinging cuts

Published: Thursday, July 16, 2009

FAMILIES and elderly people are to be lashed by the measures proposed in yesterday's An Bord Snip report. The authors called for swingeing cuts in child benefit, changes in the drugs payments scheme, higher charges for school transport, and higher...

Irish Times : Call for tax relief on pensions to be abolished

Published: Sunday, July 05, 2009

TAX RELIEF on private pensions should be abolished and the money saved put into a State pension for everyone that would keep all women and men over the age of 65 out of poverty, according to the National Women's Council of...

The Sunday Times : Battle for redress for thousands of Magdalene Slaves

Published: Saturday, July 04, 2009

They still feel like forgotten victims: in all the row following the publication in May of the Ryan report, the estimated 30,000 girls who were treated as slave labour in Magdalene laundries never received a public apology or redress, according to...

Irish Times : Governor warns on over-crowding in women’s prisons – NWCI AGM

Published: Friday, June 19, 2009

THE DÓCHAS women's prison is operating at 40 per cent over capacity following a dramatic rise in admissions, the prison governor told a conference yesterday.View full article »

Irish Examiner : It’s not just about women’s issues

Published: Monday, May 25, 2009

WHEN the first local elections took place in Ireland in 1899, one newspaper ran a front page story reporting "loud laughter" at the announcement that the ballot would give women the right to vote for the first time in this country...

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