Earth Overshoot Day (2019)
Earth Overshoot day this year is TODAY. Today is the day that we have used up nature’s budget for the whole of 2019! Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in...
Impact of Homeless Accommodation on Child Development
Child Development at Risk Living in Emergency Homeless Accommodation: Private Rental Market at the Root of the Crisis As the homelessness crisis in Ireland continues to worsen, especially family homelessness, children are facing serious negative consequences....
Invitation to Consultation on Protest
Protest plays a deeply important role in our democracy; it is both our right and our duty as citizens when faced with an injustice that the institutional democratic process, such as voting or contacting your representatives, has failed. There have been so many cases...
Elders for Earth – Supporting Climate Action
Some of our Sisters enjoying the talk by Elders for Earth Elders of the Earth is a membership network of adults who are concerned about the world we are leaving to the next generation. It was set up to allow people to join together to make their voices heard on...
Spreading Optimism: Earth Day 2019
Yesterday we celebrated Earth Day. While we are painfully aware that we are living on the brink of devastation due to Climate Change, pollution and a shortage of natural resources, we thought we’d examine some of the efforts that are being made to...
Exploiting Natural Resources – Trees
The Cork Environmental forum hosted François-Xavier Drouet’s insightful documentary, Le Tempts Des Forêts, as part of the Cork French Film Festival on 7 March 2019 in the Gate Cinema cork. Over 200 people were in attendance. Sisters Marie Treacy, Mary Usifoh and...
The Climate Strike 2019
The Climate Strike is taking place across the world today: school pupils will refuse to go to school and instead protest their parents’ inaction on climate change – a disaster that will affect the very children striking today! The strike is inspired by the Swedish...
Undergoing Female Circumcision – Grace’s Story
“I think I became a nurse because I was so angry about what had happened to me. I wanted to be able to help other women. But once I qualified I just wanted to leave, to get away.” Grace is 37 years old. She was born in Botswana to a South African mother and...
It’s About More Than Water, it’s a Women’s Rights Issue!
Photo courtesy of Tucker Tangeman - In a remote region of Northern Kenya, life is hard. Water is a few kilometres away in a dried up river bed and these girls walk there and back a few times a day. We've been enjoying amazing weather here in Ireland over the summer....