Only 4 weeks to go until our National Conference & Businesswoman of the Year Awards 2024! ⏳🎉 We’re in full swing behind the scenes getting ready for this year’s spectacular event on Friday, 27th September! bit.ly/4fiASj5 #NetworkIreland #supportedbyAIB #AStepAhead

Equality is part of the cultural identity in Finland. They are light years ahead of Ireland in terms of female representation. More women in politics means better investment in child care. More investment in childcare means more women in politics. #MoreMna

✅Free public transport for children under 9 would be a step in the right direction of making public transport more accessible for everyone 👏More measures like these, less one-off giveaways please #Budget2025 irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

"The gender disparity suggests that women may be disproportionately affected by stressors in the workplace and beyond" #Childcare, the cost-of-living, part-time & precarious work - it's easy to see why women workers are feeling a decline in wellbeing 👇 irishtimes.com/business/work/…

"I was shocked, horrified by the reality of the criminal justice system when I went through it" Women in the North have waited too long for this, but finally today a strategy to end violence against women & girls will be launched 👏 #EndVAWG bbc.com/news/articles/…

"Living with a knowledge that there is group-based capacity for harm available to him, on top of his abuse, creates a feeling of living within an omnipotent system of control" 👇Chilling research on #coercivecontrol & paramilitary activity in NI #EndVAW irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

⬛Northern Ireland has one of the highest femicide rates in Western Europe. So this new Strategy to End Violence Against Women and Girls has been a long time coming ✊It is a huge victory for women's rights activists in the North #EndVAW #NorthernIreland #EndVAWG

Today I'm heading up to Stormont to watch the FM and DFM announce this from the public gallery. It still doesn't seem real.

Huge congrats to Women's Aid NI on a successful campaign to get a Strategy to #EndVAWG in the North 👏

Update, it actually is real. All credit to the TEO Ministers and especially the team of civil servants who led this work. I'm so grateful that you pushed on. Emotional day.

There are still far too many reasons why women can't access abortion in Ireland ✊Join the Abortion Rights IE March for Choice on Safe Abortion Day - Saturday week 🗓️28 September ⌚️12:30 📍outside The Dáil

Kiss me I’m Irish!!! Congratulations to our cofounder and group coordinator Lucky Khambule who became an Irish citizen today. So many of our comrades became citizens recently and we are proud of the contribution they’ve made to Irish society from the day they landed.

👩‍👧‍👧Affordable & accessible #childcare for #EveryChild Sounds utopian, doesn't it? And yet it's the reality for many across the EU... ✔️It could be here, too. ❤️Like & share this post to show you support public early years education & care, and help end the #ChildcareCrisis

The CommunityPlatformIRL is asking all parties to commit in their manifestos to eliminating consistent poverty by 2030. Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin The Labour Party Social Democrats People Before Profit Green Party Ireland The report will be published here: communityplatform.ie

A public, inclusive system of childcare & early years education would help address inequities that beset health, social care & education for young children We should think BIG on this! #ChildPoverty #Inequity

Really looking forward to supporting the launch of this campaign. Seven long years of motherhood = seven years of dealing with the lack of reasonable childcare and putting my own career and creative goals on the back-burner. #EveryChild

Do you ever think we will see a European Commission with 60% women instead of 60% men? Disappointing to see a reduction in the number of women in the proposed new Commission ⤵️

📢Eliminating consistent poverty is not just possible, it is vital & urgent. Report launched today outlines what must be done including investment in a public model of early years education and care (communityplatform.ie)

⬛It's two years since the brutal torture & killing of Mahsa Amini 🇮🇷Her death prompted protests and 551 people were killed in the extreme repression that followed 💜Today we are sending all our solidarity to our sisters in Iran #WomanLifeFreedom lght.ly/680akjn

2️⃣days to go ⭐We’re making public childcare a general election issue ⭐ 💜 Like & share this post to show your support #TogetherForPublic #EveryChild