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Women

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Women's Health
Concerns raised over morning sickness medication being sold to women online
31 Oct 2018
35.7k
10
India
Hindu hardliners order 12-hour strike as they step up campaign to block women from Indian temple
18 Oct 2018
16.2k
61
Study
Male tennis players punished more than women - report
16 Sep 2018
7.1k
12
Pride
'There's something special about the red jersey... Munster always meant a lot to me'
15 Sep 2018
10.1k
0
Women in Politics
Substitutes for female politicians on maternity leave should be considered, says Taoiseach
10 Sep 2018
14.0k
72
The Daily Poll
Poll: Should reference to women's 'life within the home' be removed from Constitution?
8 Sep 2018
26.4k
84
Opinion
Opinion: 'It would be easy to dismiss female genital mutilation as something alien to Ireland - but it's not'
Josepha Madigan
31 Aug 2018
14.5k
60
Louth
Death of woman in Drogheda not being treated as suspicious, say gardaí
13 Aug 2018
10.2k
2
Gender Equality
Tokyo medical school admits it altered tests to keep women out
8 Aug 2018
13.1k
58
World Cup
PICS: Huge crowd turns out to welcome Irish women's hockey team home
6 Aug 2018
51.8k
84
smear test scandal
'Either stand up or get out': Varadkar called on to explain why CervicalCheck cases ending up in court
Updated 30 Jul 2018
30.1k
66
sexual crimes
Law to make penalty for incest equal for men and women approved by Cabinet
24 Jul 2018
18.9k
54
Women
Saoirse Ronan's only gone and become the face of Calvin Klein's new perfume
17 Jul 2018
5.1k
0
Contention
Referendum on women’s place in the home may be delayed until next year
12 Jul 2018
16.4k
55
Constitution
Referendum on 'women's life within the home' to be held in October
5 Jul 2018
39.2k
104
Referendum
Government set to approve plan to hold woman's 'life within the home' referendum in October
5 Jul 2018
20.9k
53
Arrests
Saudi Arabia finally lifts ban on women driving
24 Jun 2018
11.0k
45
Opinion
'She was living in a derelict building dripping with damp under a tin roof. The year was 1998'
Anne Roper
19 Jun 2018
51.1k
45
cash up front
CervicalCheck interim report says €2k payment should be given to women affected immediately
12 Jun 2018
18.1k
66
together for yes
'We owe her family a great debt': Calls for abortion legislation to be named Savita's Law
27 May 2018
19.1k
64
Eighth Amendment
Nora Owen says she was 'confronted' and 'attacked' in Leinster House during the 1980s abortion debate
23 May 2018
14.7k
34
CervicalCheck
'It seared the soul of our country': Emotional scenes as Emma Mhic Mhathúna's interview raised in the Dáil
10 May 2018
29.8k
60
CervicalCheck
Leo Varadkar confirms redress scheme for women affected by the smear test controversy
2 May 2018
13.2k
36
CervicalCheck
Simon Harris says the State will pay for women to have a repeat cervical screening
28 Apr 2018
20.0k
41
Paint Your Bump
'Mothers are afraid to say they're struggling because they're afraid they'll be judged'
22 Apr 2018
22.9k
31
doing their bit
Exhibition shows letters and postcards sent to Irish women from the frontline in World War One
24 Mar 2018
12.6k
25
empire of misogyny
Diarmuid Martin says Mary McAleese's criticism of the Church was 'brutally stark'
9 Mar 2018
51.6k
132
Women's Rights
'Unacceptable sexist behaviour': Spanish women stage unprecedented strike for rights
8 Mar 2018
15.5k
54
Mary McAleese
'Male celibates advise the Pope on what women really want, that is ludicrous'
8 Mar 2018
34.3k
117
misogyny
Mary McAleese says it's 'pure codology' that women can't become priests
8 Mar 2018
45.6k
200
snapshot of ireland
Step into the archives and look back at the incredible year of 1918
11 Feb 2018
14.8k
38
Centenary
This Waterford woman's diary shows us what life was like in Ireland 100 years ago
8 Feb 2018
30.8k
14
votes for women
Fighting for equality: The life of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
7 Feb 2018
14.1k
25
threats and intimidation
'Whenever you talk about female genital mutilation there's a backlash'
6 Feb 2018
18.9k
79
Centenary
On this day 100 years ago, Irish women got the vote
6 Feb 2018
35.1k
30
Centenary
What the National Library archives tell us about the 'incredibly dramatic year' of 1918
5 Feb 2018
10.1k
33
born in prison
Four babies born to women in prison last year
25 Jan 2018
22.6k
52
marriage bar
'I never cost the State a penny, but now they're taking part of my pension'
18 Jan 2018
60.0k
53
Planning ahead
Most women 'don't know how to start a pension' as surveys highlights gender gap
12 Jan 2018
9.5k
43
women's christmas
Today is Nollaig na mBan, so what's it all about?
6 Jan 2018
36.6k
21
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