The partner of murdered journalist Lyra McKee has said there has been a “backslide” into violence in the North.

IT’S Tuesday of this week and I’m driving my child home thinking there’s a strange silence about Gerry Adams’s arrest and I want to break it but I don’t know how.

When Betty Purcell was just two-and-a-half years old, her mother placed her in an orphanage.

A priest has accused RTÉ of imbalance and inappropriateness after he became embroiled in a blazing radio row on sex abuse in the Catholic Church on the day Pope Benedict XVI resigned.

The head of the National Women's Council has resigned and hit out at what she has called the Government's "scant regard" for women's rights.

THE political system has been a failure in terms of getting women involved in elected office, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

AS the saying goes, a woman’s work is never done. And a detailed survey has the facts to prove it.

The National Women's Council of Ireland is accusing Jobs Minister Richard Bruton of ignoring their requests for a meeting on proposed changes to wage agreements known as Joint Labour Committees.

A RANGE of rape crisis groups, women’s organisations and human rights bodies have reacted with outrage at recordings of gardaí joking about raping a woman.

DEAR Joan

TÁNAISTE and Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has defended his decision not to appoint Joan Burton to the public expenditure and reform portfolio.

AN Post has released two stamps themed around women’s rights to celebrate the centenary of International Women’s Day.

A woman who travelled out of Ireland to terminate a pregnancy while in remission from cancer had her human rights violated because of the country’s ban on abortion, European judges ruled today.

Drastic cuts will condemn families on the breadline to a life of poverty, hunger and homelessness, charities and campaigners claimed tonight.

HOMELESSNESS. Poverty. Hunger. Cold. Fear. Isolation. Illness – both physical and mental.

AUTHORITIES underestimate the risk to society posed by the pending release of brutal rapist Larry Murphy, the National Women’s Council (NWC) has warned.

ANGER was growing among support groups yesterday at the Government’s planned reform of the One Parent Family Payment that would see it scrapped when the youngest child reaches 13.

RELATIONS between the country’s 11,600 rank and file gardaí and the Government have soured considerably after the Justice Minister refused to attend their annual conference.

FAMILY support groups reacted angrily last night at the cut to child benefit which will mean a €16 fall in monthly payments per child.

More men than women have lost their jobs during the downturn, particularly in the construction sector – and please let no one pretend that working on the sites in all weathers is somehow easier than cleaning the Dáil, especially when men are more likely to lose their lives at work and have lower life expectancy

ULSTER Bank chiefs were left red-faced yesterday after it emerged the bank had unwittingly promoted an event in which students were offered free entry to a strip show to be held in a bar in Tallaght.

POLITICAL parties should be forced to run an equal number of male and female candidates in future elections, according to the National Women’s Council of Ireland.

WHEN the first local elections took place in Ireland in 1899, one newspaper ran a front page story reporting “loud laughter” at the announcement that the ballot would give women the right to vote for the first time in this country.

THE Government has been accused of failing to respect women after it emerged €9 million in Budget 2008 for tackling gender issues was spent elsewhere.

The plight of families living in poverty will be highlighted today at a book launch in Dublin.

AT the time of writing it seems unlikely that the explicit new film, 9 Songs, will go mainstream in cinemas around Ireland when it’s released this Friday. It’s not for the want of publicity, though.