{"id":2446,"date":"2016-01-11T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:50:21","slug":"deputy-crowe-and-cllr-holland-proud-supporters-of-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/deputy-crowe-and-cllr-holland-proud-supporters-of-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Crowe and Cllr Holland Proud Supporters of Womens Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Deputy Crowe and Cllr Holland Proud Supporters of Womens Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dublin Sinn F\u00e9in representatives Se\u00e1n Crowe TD\u00a0and Mayor Sarah Holland\u00a0have given their support\u00a0to the National Women\u2019s Council of Irelands Manifesto for Women.<\/p>\n<p>The Manifesto includes proposals such as making early year\u2019s childcare and education a priority and working towards repealing the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Sarah Holland said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in is a progressive party with equality as one of our core principles.\u00a0 Women\u2019s Rights are high on our agenda and neither Se\u00e1n Crowe nor I had difficulties in\u00a0signing up to these progressive proposals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate the National Women\u2019s Council for kick starting this discussion, as women at the moment only make up 16% of our TD\u2019s, and we have not had a female TD in Dublin South West for over almost 14<br \/>\nyears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a big opportunity for real change in the upcoming election and I wish the very best to all of the female candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 50 candidates signed up in the first 24 hours, and more are expected as we get closer to the election.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe added:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leinster House is run like a Gentleman\u2019s Club. The old boys network is alive and well and thriving, despite the promises of radical\u00a0reform and a new approach from the current administration under Taoiseach Enda Kenny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need new ideas, new: approaches and that means\u00a0more women need to be elected to the next parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we begin 2016 and the important\u00a0 Centenary celebrations\u00a0 the National Women\u2019s Council of Irelands progressive proposals are another reminder and hugely significant as we move closer to the implementation the ideals of the Proclamation and those of\u00a0 an inclusive Ireland.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Crowe and Cllr Holland Proud Supporters of Womens Rights &nbsp; Dublin Sinn F\u00e9in representatives Se\u00e1n Crowe TD\u00a0and Mayor Sarah Holland\u00a0have given their support\u00a0to the National Women\u2019s Council of Irelands Manifesto for Women. The Manifesto includes proposals such as making early year\u2019s childcare and education a priority and working towards repealing the 8th Amendment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}