Govt funding for the National Women’s Council rose by 30% since the Family Care Referendum State Funding: 2024: €1.1million 2025: €1.43m (+30%!) Lets Recap:
The NWC wanted to remove Women & Mothers from the Constitution on Mother’s Day 2024. They backed the Yes/Yes proposal that suffered the largest referendum defeat in history. 73.93% rejection
In the aftermath of referendum, then CEO Orla O’Connor refused all media. (à la Dee Forbes) Regardless of all this, in 2025 the State awards the NWC a “unique role role in co-designing” the next National Women’s Strategy. The State gives them 30% boost in funding. They published a 36 page strategy document. Not one mention of the word “mother”.
The accompanying Action Plan runs to 52 pages. It does not use “mother” or “wife” once. It does however, include new policies around “tradwives” & the “manosphere”. Yet, the NWC provides no citation establishing the prevalence of either phenomenon in Ireland.
The most prominent Irish research into the “manosphere” and “tradwife” influencers is a DCU study, “Recommending Toxicity”This study used just ten fake accounts on ten blank smartphones as the basis for its entire research. It labelled as “toxic” content around “alpha masculinity” such as discipline, wealth and emotional stoicism. Read that last part again. *** *** *** Every part of this is absolutely ludicrous. Giving this amount of money, power & authority to a group of unelected, unintelligent activists cannot continue. Its time to de-fund the NGOs.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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