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Saoirse, a Domestic Violence Service Group, last year published a report highlighting the shocking levels of violence against women in the Cherry Orchard area of Dublin and how housing insecurity can trap women in situations where their safety and lives are at risk. Hazel De Nortúin, a People Before Profit
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This week marks a year since the eruption of major protests in Iran in response to the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Farhang Morady explains the historical background to the protests and assesses the prospect of radical change. In 2022, Iran witnessed a major political upheaval as street
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Adrienne Wallace looks at how the far-right weaponises the idea of protecting women in order to scapegoat migrant men. Since far right groups began their most recent period of agitation against refugees, they have followed a familiar playbook. They began with claims of false scarcity – “Ireland Is Full” and
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Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, a leading women’s equality campaigner and founder of both the Irish Women Workers’ Union and the Irish Women’s Franchise League, described Connolly as the “soundest and most thorough-going feminist of all the Irish Labour men.” Connolly welcomed the Irish women’s rebellion and thought