Ms Vivienne Glanville:

We got funding from the Reconciliation Fund to partner three Women's Collective Ireland projects with three projects in the North. We had WCI South Kerry partner with Portglenone, WCI North Leitrim partnered with Hilltown in Newry and WCI Clondalkin-Ronanstown partnered with the Shankill Road. We had six women from each of those groups. They went on Zoom and they had six connections. First, they talked about the issues in each community and what similarities there were. Then they did some art activism. They managed to tell their story through activism. We managed to print off and publish zines. It was activism in action. We brought them together for an in-person event. Our partners were Shankill Women's Centre and the Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network, NIRWN. In total, 36 women worked together. We are in the middle of compiling a report. They have given us a lot of work because they want to get to know each other. They want to stand in Clondalkin, Tallaght, and Belfast and be in the space with each other. When the news is on, they want to know that if something is happening in Dublin that it is relevant to them in the same way as what is happening in the North is relevant to the women in the South.