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Orla Tinsley is a 25 year old journalist and campaigner. She began campaigning for the rights of people with cystic fibrosis when she was 18. She also has the illness that affects many organs in the body and in 2005 she began writing in The Irish Times to campaign for an isolation unit. At the [...]
Continue ReadingMary Lawlor has a background of over 35 years experience in human rights. She set up Front Line Defenders - the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders - in 2001. Front Line Defenders concentrates all its activities on human rights defenders at risk who work non-violently for the rights of others as [...]
Continue ReadingAn independent consumer expert, Tina Leonard is Ireland’s foremost consumer champion. She dispenses consumer advice and information weekly via her Smart Consumer column in the Irish Independent and on RTE Radio 1’s Today with Pat Kenny programme, and has delivered a consumer segment on RTE’s Four Live (and formerly The Afternoon Show) since 2005. A [...]
Continue ReadingHeidi Rowlands is seven. She was born on Halloween in London, in 2005. She now lives in Wexford with her parents, her brother Finn and Betty the dog. Her interests include Amur leopards, movies, fashion, going to the cinema with her auntie and reading books. Her favourite books are The Hobbit, The Witches and the [...]
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I can vote and be myself and be successful. If you educate a man you educate a man if you educate a woman you educate a generation.
all boys and men appear to be more important, know more, and have to have needs sorted, first- food, washing, the basics - loo cleaning, etc. We must stop doing it, full stop. I bet Orla Leyden still does all her family housework (no offence at all - just making a point) x
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