Still reeling from the decision to make Wonder Woman a UN ambassador for gender equality, Suzanne Harrington pays tribute to the real wonder women of our time.

As executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O’Gorman is immediately recognisable as the man who passionately represents the disenfranchised. 

Following the recent shootings in America, John Robert Lewis, the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, has shared his experience of using a whites-only restroom 55 years ago.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams qualified his apology for tweeting the N-word to his 111,000 followers, but defended the “context” in which he used the term.

Gerry Adams has said his use of the n-word in his tweet last night was "inappropriate".

Taoiseach Enda Kenny described his discussions with the Green Party as “very constructive”, in his efforts to secure sufficient votes in his bid to remain in government.

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Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has been severely criticised for comparing his exclusion from a White House St Patrick’s Day event to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

It had been a hectic day, which had begun more than 12 hours earlier for Enda Kenny.

The US Department of the Treasury has confirmed that the process to feature a woman’s face on paper currency will commence.

IT WAS politics at its best, the referendum. Political parties looking at a proposition decided to espouse it. Ways were found by both sides in the argument to engage the public. The clearest of decisions was made by the electorate, and countless lives were changed for the better.

One in three people are classed as introverts but the modern world is built around the extrovert and so it’s not easy for people like Elizabeth O’Neill who just want to be left to their own devices.

It seems to me that the yes side in the same-sex marriage debate will continue to concede votes unless they pull back from name calling and bullying their opponents with false allegations.

The State is obliged to check that a minimum educational standard is being applied...writes Michael Clifford

Rory O’Neill says people are expecting him to be a freedom fighter on political issues but there’s more to him than that.

The right to peaceful assembly and free expression has never been more important, says Ruairí McKiernan

Nine of the country’s 53 protected bogs are being illegally cut by turf contractors, according to environmental and heritage groups.

As Muhammad Ali turns 70 today, a nation honours a sporting hero that has come to define what it means to be American, writes John Riordan

THE jailing of Teresa Treacy for refusing to allow the ESB to cut down her trees is an all-time low for Irish democracy.

AS Andy Gray often said himself; “It’s what I call one of those indefensible ones — you can’t defend against them.”

IRISH survivors of clerical sex abuse have been invited to travel to the Vatican on October 31 to demand change from the Roman Catholic Church.

Americans remembered Martin Luther King’s dream of social justice on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s assassination today.

The Alabama Legislature has given final approval to a bill that sets up a process to pardon US civil rights icon Rosa Parks and hundreds of others arrested for violating segregation-era laws.

A British tourist refused to give up a seat on a New York City bus which was being kept unoccupied in honour of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, it was reported today.

Time magazine’s 2005 Person of the Year may not be a person after all.

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism in the face of genocide inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, received the US National Civil Rights Museum’s 2005 Freedom Awards.

A soaring rendition of The Lord’s Prayer moved thousands of mourners at the funeral of US civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks today, with a preacher bidding: “Mother Parks, take your rest.”

Rosa Parks’ body has been returned to the city she called home, with thousands waiting in a line more to pay their final respects to the US civil rights leader.

Pop beauty Gwen Stefani paid tribute to late US civil rights icon Rosa Parks at her Detroit, Michigan concert on Saturday.

MORE than 30,000 Americans streamed through the US Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute yesterday to Rosa Parks, filing by her casket in hushed awe of the woman whose defiant act on a city bus inspired the modern civil rights movement.

ROSA PARKS, the seamstress whose act of defiance on a public bus a half-century ago helped spark the US civil rights movement, will join presidents and war heroes who have been honoured in death with a public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda.

Rosa Parks, who died on Monday, will become the first woman to receive one of America's highest tributes.

African-American civil rights icon Rosa Parks has died. She was 92.

NEARLY 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on an Alabama, bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.

RECENT reports on the case of the Rossport Five from north Mayo have focused on the fact that, so far, the men have refused to purge their contempt of court.

Trying to mend fences with Europe, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today “it is time to turn away from the disagreements of the past” that alienated long-time allies over the invasion of Iraq.

Bono is to receive a US National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award.

The US Supreme Court refused yesterday to intervene in a lawsuit over the hit song Rosa Parks by the Grammy-winning rap group OutKast.

Something for the weekend, sir? Yes, this terrific film, a clever examination of African-American society, as seen during one day in a Chicago barbershop; full of wonderful characters.