Clare County Council’s Rural Development Directorate’s Healthy Clare team have been successful in securing €10,000 funding from the Department of Heath to pilot the Local Authority (LA) ‘Free Period Products’ initiative. The provision of period products in public buildings is a recommendation of the draft ‘Period Poverty in Ireland’ report by the National Strategy for […]
A ‘Period Dignity’ pilot project is being rolled out across Cork City by the Lord Mayor of Cork. Cllr. Deirdre Forde, along with Cork City Council’s Women’s Caucus Chair Cllr. Mary Rose Desmond and members of the Women’s Caucus. Research shows that 50% of young Irish women have experienced issues around affording sanitary products. Phase […]
The announcement of a €15 million “Housing with Support” pilot scheme for older people expected to bring 52 new homes to St. Michael’s Estate, Inchicore has been made by the Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Damien English. The pilot project, currently in the first phase, is expected to be completed by 2020. “Part of the […]