Plan International Ireland launch world’s biggest data tracker for girls to 'identify the barriers"

“In today’s world girls have to be counted, we have to matter, girls are invaluable. This world needs us and we will not back down.”

These are the words of 18-year-old Etáin Sweeney Keogh, speaking in Dublin yesterday on the United Nation’s International Day of the Girl.

Etáin is on the youth advisory panel of the children’s charity — Plan International Ireland.