Lidl is giving away free period products, but being a woman costs far more than just this 

Irish women will spend almost €5k on period products in their lifetime

Lidl Ireland have teamed up to give women in need free period products.

In a recent report, the Government estimated that women spend €121 a year on products to deal with menstruation. The average Irish woman lives to the grand old age of 82.8 these days, so that means that we spend around €4840 on period products in our lifetime, estimating 40 years of menstruating. 

For Dublin woman Claire Hunt, providing women in need with sanitaryware has become a passion. A film called 'I, Daniel Blake' inspired Hunt to start an organisation called The Homeless Period Dublin. "There is a scene in it where a girl is caught shoplifting a box of tampons or pads and it was so confronting that I couldn't stop thinking about it," she explains while welcoming her two daughters 9 and 10 home from school. Claire has teamed up with Lidl Ireland for an initiative to provide women in need all over the country with free period products from today.