This week, in advance of IWD, NWC held a rally outside the Dáil calling for better-paid and more family leave.
👂Donal Swan, Senior Policy Coordinator (Women's Economic Equality) discussed on Newstalk Breakfast.
Access the full clip: open.spotify.com/episode/7IcG...
Across Europe, family leave is built into the foundations of social policy.
In Ireland? Families are still expected to carry the cost.
Swipe through to see how Ireland compares with Sweden, Bulgaria Portugal & Germany.
📖 Read our booklet: www.nwci.ie/learn/public...
#PayFamilyLeave #CloseTheGap
Great turn out for our gathering outside the Dáil today calling for family leave to be linked to income, saying it should expand to cover at least the 1st year of a child’s life
You can read more about our proposals in our new Family Leave booklet on our website here: www.nwci.ie/learn/public...
“Closing the gap between family leave and childcare is about giving parents real choice.” Corrinne Hasson, NWC Executive Director
Ahead of International Women’s Day, we are calling for better-paid and more family leave.
Read the OpEd in today’s Irish Independent: www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
Tomorrow, we are gathering outside the Dáil to demand action on properly paid, income-linked family leave 💜
Family leave is gender equality.
Join us. Let’s close the gap.
📍 Outside the Dáil
🗓 Wednesday, 4 March
⏰ 10:30am
#PayFamilyLeave #CloseTheGap 💜
👏 Our heartfelt congrats to Mary Crilly of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork, who received the jury's Special Recognition at the 2026 Adamowicz Award
Mary has been a fearless & inspirational advocate for survivors for forty years
❤️ NWC is proud to count the Sexual Violence Centre Cork as our member
Today, the National Women’s Council attended the launch of Research Ireland’s Strategy 2026–2030.
Gender equality must be central to Ireland’s research.
We look forward to engaging with Research Ireland to ensure this strategy delivers for women along with everyone else 💜
In just two days, we’re gathering outside the Dáil to demand action for proper family leave.
Join us in mobilising for:
• Properly paid, income-linked family leave
• Leave that covers at least a child’s first year
• An affordable public system of ECEC
📍 Outside the Dáil,🗓 March 4th, ⏰ 10:30am
Looking for something to do this International Women’s Day?
Our IWD 2026 calendar of events is now live, featuring events happening in Ireland in the lead-up to March 8th.
Explore the full calendar here:
👉https://www.nwci.ie/learn/events
#IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
The time to speak out is now. Families across Ireland are being asked to have their say on the future of childcare.
🕒 The survey is open until 12 March and takes just 10 minutes to complete:
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Join the National Women’s Council at Dáil Éireann on March 4th, @ 10:30am as we mobilise to demand:
• Adequate, income-linked maternity, paternity, & parents leave
• Family leave that covers at least a child’s first year
• A public system of early childhood education & care
Join us & #CloseTheGap
We are incredibly proud to join Disability Federation Ireland, Irish Wheelchair Association and Acces for all Ireland to demand a €400 Emergency Disability Payment.
Join us:
Saturday, 28 February
Garden of Remembrance, Dublin
1:00pm
NWC has repeatedly highlighted gaps in training & understanding of coercive control, & the impact this has
We need specialist training, transparent survivorcentred structures & more
Domestic & sexual violence is an issue that requires systemic change
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
#EndVaw
Saturday, NWC joined other civil society organisations and activists at the National Demo for Palestine.
We are calling on the Irish Government to take against these relentless violations of international law and impose sanctions on Israel, at a minimum, now.
Ahead of International Women’s Day, we are gathering outside of the Dáil to mobilise for properly paid, income-linked family leave & an affordable system of public childcare that leaves no family behind.
📍 Join us outside the Dáil
🗓 March 4th
⏰ 10:30am
Close the gap & demand action
The Feminist Communities for Climate Justice legacy video is an alternative to a traditional written report, platforming those voices directly.
🎥 Watch the full video by heading to our youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=72ja...
#FeministClimateJustice
#PressRelease Gender equality must be central to our climate change planning
The impact of environmental breakdown, and the strategies to mitigate against it, are being felt differently by women and marginalised communities.
🔗Read more: www.nwci.ie/learn/articl...
In today's Irish Times, Professor Jennie C Stephens writes about Feminist Climate Justice as an antidote to rising petromasculinity.
🔗Read the full article: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
🔗Learn more about Feminist Communities for Climate Justice: www.feministclimatejustice.ie
NWC director Corrinne Hasson, along with Labour Party politicians and NGO reps, holds a sign saying "a real right to remote work"
Corrinne Hasson speaking at the press conference on Monday
👐 NWC fully supports the @labourparty Bill in the Dáil today for a right for employees to flexible and remote work
✅️ Having a right to flexible and remote work won't fix gender inequality, but it would provide another tool for women in managing the complexity of life
photo of Gisèle Pelicot with a quote that reads "all women who have been raped should no longer feel ashamed"
We cannot wait to read Gisèle Pelicot's memoir. She is a trailblazer for survivors of #GenderBasedViolence, an icon of our time.
#EndVAW
Deeply concerning article revealing that a mother who experienced domestic violence was refused social housing priority
Local authorities must take DSGBV into account when assessing housing priority. No survivor should have to fight the system like this.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Last week, Professor Pauline Cullen launched her book, Pathways to Political Candidacy for Minoritized Women in Ireland, at Maynooth University, an important contribution in removing barriers and supporting more women from minority backgrounds to enter and remain in Irish politics.
🏠Women fleeing domestic abuse need access to proper, safe and secure accommodation options.
Listen to Corrinne Hasson, NWC Executive Director discuss our submission to the Child and Family Homelessness Action Plan on C103FM
Agreed. We are also calling for long-term accommodation options for women who feel safer relocating.
📢 Today we are calling for laws to allow women and children in abusive situations to remain safely in the family home, and for perpetrators to be removed instead
📲 Share this post to help us make government sit up and take decisive action now
More: www.nwci.ie/learn/articl...
💔 We are saddened & troubled today to hear of the deaths of 53 people, including 2 babies, off the Libyan coast
📈 The UN estimates 35,000 people have drowned trying to reach Europe since 2015
📢 We call on the Irish government to step up and be a leader in the EU on this massive humanitarian crisis
Senator Eileen Flynn speaking at the launch
A Traveller woman sings as people look on
Martin Collins of Pavee Point speaking at the launch
Traveller and Roma women die, on average, 8 years earlier than women in Ireland generally.
NWC attended the launch of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency report @Pavee.Point last week.
We fully support the call on government to cut the life expectancy gap in half by 2030.
🧍♀️ NWC stands in solidarity with victim-survivors of the Esptein trafficking ring
🛑 We call for zero tolerance for the crimes perpetrated by many of the most influential & powerful men in the world
📩 The response must send a message that gender based violence will never be tolerated
#EndVAW
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On #BrigidsDay, also the first day of spring, we look at this day as a symbol of care, protection and renewal, deeply connected to land, food and community, a reminder to all of us that humans and nature are not separate 🌱
Climate justice is care work. And care must be at the heart of our future💚
