International Women's Day event in co:worx, Edgeworthstown
Researchers from UCD, Aberdeen University and DCU are hosting the third in a series of Women's Deliberative Cafes in county Longford on Saturday, March 8
On International Women's Day, Saturday, March 8, professors and researchers from UCD, Aberdeen University and DCU are hosting the third in a series of Women's Deliberative Cafes in co:worx, Edgeworthstown.
Longford native, Dr Shelley Deane, Department of Law and Government DCU, explained that the research seeks to better understand the shared challenges faced across the island of Ireland, to unpuzzle together how things work "down here" and "up there", and how we might work together better in the here and now, and learn policy lessons for the future of the debate about constitutional issues on the island.
Women will be coming from Mid-Ulster, Monaghan and Mayo to talk to women from Longford in the third in this current series of Deliberative Cafes. The first was held in Seamus Heaney's home place in November, the second was hosted in Cookstown and the third is in Edgeworthstown.
The final event, now on Saturday, March 22 in Ballina Library, was postponed due to Storm Éowyn.
Dr Deane commented, "Bringing women together on common ground, addressing our shared challenges on International Women's Day goes some way to demonstrating the ways in which Longford women, along with women in other communities - tackle everyday hurdles and foresee ways to address these problems, learning from existing processes and procedures applied and adopted across our island."