Ireland has still to achieve equality between men and women a century after the founding of the Cumann na mBan, President Michael D Higgins has said.

The socialist republican party, éirígí, will hold its annual one-day ard fheis in Dublin today.

A grassroots Labour movement aimed at taking policy development away from highly-paid “handlers” and giving it back to ordinary members will be launched next month.

A NATIONAL protest campaign intent on reversing Government plans to cut child benefit is to be waged in the build up to December’s budget.

A PUBLIC campaign to fight the Government’s plans to cut child benefit is to be escalated by the lobby representing 300,000 women.