Ireland

Being the junior partner in a coalition is always a difficult balancing act – especially in a health crisis.

With government negotiations still up in the air, we hear how the Irish Greens bounced back in 2019 and 2020. Part of our four-part “Green Wave” series.

Thanks to energetic grassroots campaigning and a steady shift in social attitudes, women in Ireland have finally won the right to choose whether to have child or not.

A look at both Poland and Ireland’s policies and recent movements regarding abortion.

Brexit has been a shock. It wasn’t the European Union that smashed the trade unions, depleted Britain’s social housing stock and then went on an orgy of privatisation, but Brexit has handed complete, unregulated control over to those who did, and the potential consequences reach far beyond Britain’s borders.