Ireland ‘still to attain equality between men and women’

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.

In a State ceremony marking the beginnings of the women’s revolutionary movement, Mr Higgins said its vision remained a promise of what could be achieved in modern Ireland.

Although the organisation helped secure Ireland’s political freedom, it did not achieve all of its goals, the President told the commemoration.