The Equality Commission together with the Commissioner for Public Appointments for NI and WRDA/Reclaim the Agenda hosted an event for International Women’s Day on Thursday. Watch Geraldine McGahey (Chief Commissioner of the Equality Commission), Deirdre Hargey (MLA and Communities Minister) and Judena Gillespie (Commissioner for Public Appointments for NI) speak with candour about their careers and journeys into positions of leadership.
Highlights from some of the northern speakers on Friday night at Sinn Féin’s ard fheis being held in the Belfast Waterfront. Northern leader Michelle O’Neill called for reconciliation to heal pain, build bridges and rid society of sectarianism and blamed the DUP/Tory pact for the lack of an Executive.
It is increasingly bizarre that is was DUP MLA Robin Newton who announced major changes on SF’s team at Belfast City Council while Cllr Tom Hartley declared any changes would merely be about phasing out dual madates: Sinn Féin is replacing a number of Councillors at City Hall in line with our party’s policy of phasing out dual-mandates With Deirdre Hargey, previously suspended from SF and dropped as a council candidate in 2005 over her actions during/following the murder of …
