150th Anniversary Network Luncheon - International Women’s Day - 8th March

International Women's Day is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. It is a day to celebrate the gains women have made and to focus on the changes that are still needed and Network Waterford hosted a special luncheon in Beckett’s Restaurant.

Representatives from the Waterford One World Centre joined us to highlight, briefly, the different working conditions currently experienced by women globally. The Waterford One World Centre is a Development Education resource centre that works in partnership with the local community to educate and empower people to take action on global issues of social justice and human dignity. www.waterfordoneworldcentre.com

Left: from left: Agnes Ogunleye, Waterford One World Centre, Claire Gogarty President and Susan Gallwey, Waterford One World Centre Right: Harpist Lynn Saoirse, www.lynnsaoirse.com, who won a hamper of fair-trade products, sponsored by Ardkeen Stores, with Claire. "Ladies at the lunch" from front oin left: Claire Gogarty, Susan Gallwey, Patricia Roche, Maura O'Grady Kennedy, Caroline Acheson, guest, (apologies can't remember name), Mary Roche, Claire Phelan, from front on right: Agnes Ogunleye, Lynn Saoirse, Milia Tsaoussis-Maddock, Brid Richardson, Mary Darlington, Claire Phelan, not in photo Mary O'Halloran, Christine Shanahan and Jill Hincks, photo

150th anniversary

2007 marks the 150th anniversary of the first recorded organised action by working women anywhere in the world. The action took place in New York on March 8, 1857, when hundreds of women in the garment and textile factories staged a strike in protest of low wages, long working hours, inadequate pay, inhumane working conditions and the lack of the right to vote.