Máire Devine (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I should express deep sorrow at being an upstart and upsetting the men in the Chamber but, let us remember, well-behaved women are rarely heard or achieve equality. I enjoy acknowledging women’s day but I am a bit of a begrudger at times. I love to celebrate and enjoy our sisters, daughters, mothers, aunties, nieces and gal-pals every day of the year, and I enjoy the recognition of this one day of 365, but I am also quite weary. I am weary because little seems to improve. Given the current general political atmosphere and the turn to the right and neofascism in some arenas, we may be moving backwards. We remain underpaid in the office and we are not promoted at the same rate as our male colleagues in business but we are expected to nimbly step through society’s carefully-----

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