National Women’s Council

We are devastated to hear of the tragic death of Loredana Morosanu, over the bank holiday weekend. Our thoughts are with Loredana’s family, friends and loved ones at this heartbreaking time. Rest in peace, Loredana. 💜

👻 We're ghosting privatised childcare, the gender pay gap, medical gaslighting, and misogyny in all its forms this #Hallowe'en Join us. Become a feminist changemaker this Halloween and ghost inequality forever 🎃 www.nwci.ie/join/feminis...

📢 With the UK due to outlaw porn featuring strangulation or incest next week, NWC is calling on the Irish government to follow suit. ✖️ Despite what you may have read on social media, there is no safe way to choke someone or be choked during sex. 🕐 It's high time we had a conversation about porn.

🚨 Major Opportunity Alert 🚨 We are recruiting a Senior Policy Co-Ordinator, with a focus on women’s safety, gender-based violence and tackling all forms of violence against women. ⏰ Deadline: midnight on Sunday, 29 November 2026 www.nwci.ie/learn/articl... #JobFairy #IrishJobs #FeministJobs

📻 Yesterday, NWC's Corrinne Hasson spoke to Tipp FM about our call to ban strangulation and incest porn. 📢 Our young people deserve better than this. Ireland must follow the UK's lead and ban strangulation and incest porn.

✊️ Our solidarity to those on strike today. Fair pay is crucial in education and care, which are women-led sectors. 📢 NWC calls on government to begin pay negotiations and enact increases immediately, and these pay conditions must bridge the gap between sectoral pay and rates of inflation.

We are devastated at the deaths of Kim and Philip English and two of their children in Waterford last night. Our thoughts are with their two remaining children who are now in Crumlin Hospital. Everyone, no matter who they are, deserves to live life free from violence, fear and intimidation.

😯 Were you surprised to hear about "maximum" childcare fees of €750 a month in the Budget? 👯‍♀️ Well, you're in good company. Aideen Finnegan, presenter of The Irish Times Better With Money podcast was also surprised. 💸 Cost is just one of the reasons we are calling for public childcare, now.

🏩 The Minister for Health has confirmed the Mother and Baby Inpatient Mental Health Unit, one of NWC's key calls in #Budget2027, will go ahead at St Vincents Dublin. While this is welcome news, it is disappointing that it will not be ready for another 3 or 4 years. www.thejournal.ie/mother-and-b...

At NWC’s Europe in Action event in Dublin, our Associate Director Adriana Lamačková joined a discussion on women’s health, reproductive rights, and the role civil society can play in shaping EU debates and policy. Thank you @nwc.bsky.social for convening this important conversation.

📢 Yesterday, the government announced it would pilot State-led childcare at nine locations around the country. It's a good first step but it's not public childcare. Read our press release for our full response: www.nwci.ie/learn/articl...

13 women killed on our island in 2026 so far. 1 in 2 women experience sexual violence in their lifetime. More than 1 in 3 women have experienced domestic abuse 🚶‍♀️ That's why NWC (& our neighbours👋 ) joined the #WalkOutForWomen today. ❤️ Because all women deserve to live a life free of violence

Europe is shining for abortion rights! 💚 Tonight, cities and landmarks across Europe are sending a powerful message of support for abortion rights.

🛝 In today's Irish Examiner Dan Nickström, an Irish man who lives in Finland with his wife and two children, describes the system of public childcare there. #EveryChild is guaranteed a place, and it is free except if you are very wealthy. Read it: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

🤰 Where is the Mother and Baby Psychiatric Unit long promised by Government? With suicide the leading cause of maternal death in 2025, it could not be more urgent. Yet it still hasn't been built. Read our press release: www.nwci.ie/learn/articl...

📢 Aolish Gormley leads the Year of Care campaign which calls for postpartum checks to be extended to a year after childbirth. Services must be accessible to every woman who needs them. Read Conor O'Carroll's investigation into perinatal mental health services: www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

“Women have always been at the heart of change right across our island”🤝 Many thanks to Michelle O’Neill, First Minister NI, for her well wishes for the launch of the All-Island Women’s Forum Strategic Plan today

On the front page of today's Irish Examiner, NWC's Executive Director calls for an information campaign about #SexForRentExploitation. In addition to an information campaign, we need 👮‍♀️ training for gardaí 🏡 more protections for renters 💻️ serious consequences for host platforms #EndVAW

We are devastated to learn of the violent death of another young woman, Natasha Kernan Connors. 🖤Today are thoughts are with Natasha, and with all her loved ones who have suffered this terrible loss. Women, everywhere, deserve to live free from violence, abuse, and fear. Rest in peace, Natasha.

🚨 NWC is dismayed at the reports of sexual harassment in our National Ambulance Service. 🚑️ The public places huge trust in our ambulance service. Workers and patients of must be confident they will be treated with respect while in contact with the ambulance service.

📃New restrictive citizenship rules, especially the English language test, will disproportionately impact disabled women and women with caring responsibilities NWC calls for more supports, not new barriers, for migrant women.

⚽Women and Girls in sport deserve better NWC is concerned by comments from Mary McAleese citing issues of gender equality and a resistance to women in decision making roles when resigning yesterday from her role as chairwoman of the Gaelic Games Integration Steering Group.

Help us drive action and policy in Ireland to help end violence against women. Join NWC and become our next Policy Co-Ordinator. ⏰ Full-time, 5 days per week 🏢 Hybrid working 📅 Deadline: 5pm 9 Sept 🔗 Find out more and apply here: www.nwci.ie/learn/articl... #JobFairy #IrishJobs #FeministJobs

Elaine McQuillan is CEO of StartBright Early Learning Centres, a social enterprise model of early years education and care. Read her op-ed about how this model could be part of the solution to the childcare crisis in today's @IrishExaminer: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... #EveryChild

💔 Struggling to find the words, yet again, to let you know that another woman has been killed this year. Our hearts are today with Jady Cristine Pereira Rosa, and with her loved ones, for whom her loss will be immeasurable. Every woman deserves to live free from violence and abuse. #EndVAW 🖤

Kinda chic to advance women's rights and equality... 💅 NWC will continue working for 🔸Free contraception beyond age 35 🔸Safe and accessible abortion 🔸Public, affordable, high-quality childcare 🔗Learn more at nwci.ie

👶Every child deserves access to childcare. That’s why we’re calling for a phased transition from a market-led system to a public childcare system that guarantees every child the right to high-quality childcare. 📖 Read our 'Roadmap to Public': www.nwci.ie/learn/public...

📢📃 NWC welcomes the publication of the first Action Plan under the National Strategy for Women and Girls, which includes issues NWC has campaigned for. 🎯But greater ambition is needed, particularly on measures to improve gender parity in local government and tackling the childcare crisis.

💡Budget 2027 presents an opportunity for Government to protect households from high energy costs through targeted supports, explains Rebecca Gorman, Head of Policy and Media, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU). 🔗Read our Pre-Budget Submission: www.nwci.ie/images/uploa...

💜 NWC, Ireland's largest feminist organisation is hiring! 💼 ✨We're searching for a new Senior Policy Co-ordinator with a particular focus on women’s safety, gender-based violence, and tackling all forms of violence against women, could it be you? www.nwci.ie/learn/articl...

62% of parents in Tramore, Waterford, cannot find suitable childcare. And it's not just Tramore, there is a growing presence of childcare deserts across the country. This morning, Corrinne Hasson joined Ireland AM to talk about the childcare crisis and its impact on families and communities.

A Commission of Investigation found it ‘highly likely’ burials took place in the grounds of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home. Despite this, planning permission has been granted for a private development on the site. Take action now: clannproject.org/savebessboro...

📢Game changing news: Your pharmacist will soon be able to re-prescribe your contraception We’re hoping this is swiftly implemented 🤞 Now, Government must also couple this with expanding Free Contraception Scheme to women aged 40, and eliminating eligibility criteria such as the PPSN.

Legislation criminalising the offering of accommodation in exchange for sex is being finalised today. Listen back to Corrinne Hasson on Morning Ireland discussing the journey to the criminalisation of sex for rent and what needs to happen next.

Today marks a huge win for women in Ireland. Government is enacting Jennie’s Law and legislation banning Sex for Rent. These are both important steps but now we must see further actions to create a victim-centered justice system and increase protection for renters. #EndVAW

🚫Legislation criminalising the offering and advertisement of sex for rent sends a clear message that exploiting women in need of housing is not tolerated. We now need to see actions to prevent and respond to sex for rent. Read our press release welcoming the legislation: nwci.ie/learn/articl...

💬 We had a great time on the Oh Right Yea Podcast last week! 👩‍👧 In this clip Corrinne Hasson explains why a Mother and Baby Unit for postpartum women is one of our top calls for #Budget2027 🎙️ Listen & watch back here: linktr.ee/ohrightyeahpod

We all want to see a society where women, and everyone, can live free from violence and abuse But when people chose to blame violence on migrant men, society loses sight of the real issues Join us in calling for the real solutions. Because when they get louder for hate, we get louder for love ❤️

7 women killed in the first 7 months in 2026 in Ireland. That's already the total number of women killed in all of 2025. Enough is enough.

Our hearts are so heavy this morning as we mourn the death of Jamey Carney, another woman killed in violent circumstances. We extend our deepest sympathies to her friends, family and wider community at this unimaginably difficult time. Women everywhere deserve to live free from violence. 🖤

💔 Our hearts are broken again today after learning of the killing of Adina Raluca Constantin in Portlaoise. We send her friends and family our deepest sympathies. Every woman deserves to live free from violence and fear.

❤️ At the National Women's Council, we have been campaigning for women who experience pregnancy loss have a statutory entitlement to paid leave afterwards. 👏 This week, government announced they will bring forward legislation to provide paid leave for people in these heartbreaking circumstances.

🎉Legislation banning sex for rent has passed through the Seanad! The Bill will now proceed to final stages in the Dáil on 15th July. This marks a significant milestone in protecting renters from sexual exploitation and coercion.

⌛Families in Ireland cannot wait any longer. ✊NWC supports a motion put forward by Claire Kerrane, SF, aligning with recommendations outlined in our Roadmap to Public Childcare, crucially, our call to reduce fees through the State paying educators’ wages and costs.

📢 NWC and survivors have long called for survivors to be able to transfer between local authority housing lists because long-term housing is a key aspect recovery from violence ✊️ NWC will continue to campaign for an end to all forms of violence against women

Yesterday, NWC convened the All-Island Women’s Forum (AIWF) in Belfast to plan and refocus our priorities for the year ahead. We'll continue working with women’s groups and organisations across the island to ensure women’s voices are heard and represented on key social, economic & political issues.

We are this close 🤏 to pharmacists being able to repeat your contraception prescription 👏 NWC has long called for this change whicch will improve access to contraception for many ✊️ NWC campaigns for everyone, including women over 35, to have access to the Free Contraception Scheme.

We hope you are at peace now, Noreen. We send our deepest sympathies to the loved ones of Noreen Daly, who has been murdered in Waterford. Their loss is devastating, and impossible to fully capture in words. Women everywhere deserve to live, and die, free from violence.