📢📃 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.

3️⃣ The mandatory 3-day wait is paternalistic, medically unnecessary, and delays women from accessing timely care, sometimes forcing them to travel abroad. 👏 NWC welcomes proposed legislation to remove it and we will keep campaigning for abortion access for everyone who needs it.

🎉 It's NWC's AGM! Our keynote speaker, @jenniecstephens, brought her Feminist Rage ✊️ and passionately described how systems of oppression are linked and having real-world impact today. 🙏 Thank you also to Minister @NormaFoleyTD for sending us a video message

NWC stands in unwavering solidarity with anyone who has been afraid or experienced intimidation after bad actors took to the streets in Belfast perpetrating violence, intimidation and arson. Violence does not solve violence, and makes everyone feel more unsafe.

👏 Welcome news - Jennie's Law has been approved by Cabinet. ✊️ NWC will continue to campaign for the prevention of all forms of violence against women, a survivor-centred justice system & supports for survivors as well as proper consequences for perpetrators.

Amy Greer Murphy is a mother of four who, because of a lack of childcare, had to turn down her dream job. Read her story: www.thejournal.ie/readme/child... 👧 NWC calls for public childcare that would guarantee a place for #EveryChild, no matter who or where they are. Women deserve nothing less.

Suzie Ronayne had to travel to Liverpool to terminate a pregnancy, as she did not meet the legal criteria to undergo it in Ireland. NWC will continue to campaign for everyone who needs an abortion to be able to access one when and where they need it. Read more: www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

🗣️ Dr. Salome Mbugua, CEO, AkiDwA talks about the need for and importance of including the voices and experiences of migrant women in gender-based violence policy. 🔗Learn more about survivor engagement published by the Observatory on Violence against Women, led by NWC: www.nwci.ie/discover/wha...

A funding model that can’t retain providers or serve all families is not a stable foundation for our childcare system. We need a truly public system – now.

📢Today marks the launch of Legacy of Determination – a limited-edition jersey celebrating the women achievements have helped shape Ireland – created by former Irish international footballer Seána Cooke, with a portion of proceeds donated to NWC. 👕The jersey is on sale now: legacyofdetermination.com