The Irish Examiner's International Women's Day breakfast event heard from three inspiring women about areas including homelessness, healthcare and sexism

Limerick woman Elaine Houlihan has been announced as the 39th Macra na Feirme president.  At the close of nominations on March 1, Macra received one nomination for the role of president for the term 2023-2025.

"Sitting with Georgie is an incredible experience. Her energy and zest for life is infectious. She is the kind of girl who inspires people."

Karen O'Reilly, founder of Employflex and Employmum, shares an all-too-familiar tale for International Women's Day

On March 8 the Irish Examiner celebrates International Women's Day with an event that sees Annmarie O'Connor, Deborah Somorin and Julie Jay discuss what it means for them to be a woman in Ireland in 2023. Here they write about how far we've come — and what needs to change

Meet four women working in primarily male-dominated careers about their experience and advice for younger women

Their ‘crowning glories’ were straightened and ‘Westernised’ by colonisers, but a new exhibition, Crowned, is giving full flow to the voices of immigrant and ethnic women, says Geraldine Walsh

In honour of International Women's Day, we select three Irish podcasts and one American show where females are very much front and centre 

The for-profit global corporations of our online lives must learn that there is no profit in tolerating child exploitation, grooming, misogyny and sexual exploitation, writes Dr Clíona Saidléar.

Ireland's six female presidents thanked former higher education minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor for introducing the Senior Academic Leadership Initiative in 2019, which has led to 30 female-only professorships in Ireland

We are all hags — if not now, then sooner than you think and mid-life is frankly joyous — the most liberating and zero-fucks era of all

C103's Patricia Messinger, Newstalk's Andrea Gilligan and RTÉ's Louise Duffy have clocked up more than 50 years broadcasting between them and are keen to hear more women on the radio

"Adeleke is a triple threat: she is the reigning U20 European champion at both 100m and 200m, and has stretched herself to become a 400m specialist as well."

"Paula is a co-founder of Ag Mental Health Week, which began in 2020 as a global awareness campaign for mental health in Agriculture and has also achieved a certification in suicide crisis response."

"Fitzgibbon posted a Tweet asking if women doctors here were interested in setting up an association and got an enthusiastic response - it was the first step towards establishing the Women in Medicine in Ireland Network (WiMIN)."

In a world where paying your own way and owning your own home gets more and more difficult, swapping your independence for wealth might sound like a fair deal. But there’s a dangerous precedent involved in setting yourself up as a commodity.

"In revealing her family’s personal experience, the Fianna Fáil TD highlighted the “very poor” services for children who are transgender in this country."

"In her time with Vodafone, she oversaw the rollout of 4G and 5G services across the country and saw the commencement of fibre broadband services which have proved transformative for the country."

"Her reporting on political matters always found the personal entry-point, the detail that readers could relate to, the detail that transformed an issue from an abstract political topic into a deeply personal story."

We ask three overseas female doctors and a medical student about studying and working in Ireland and to highlight the difference between our medical system and that of their home country  

'Rights are rarely freely given, but instead requested, demanded and then fought for until finally won — and feminism, to which International Women's Day currently belongs, is often the vehicle'

Change-makers, powerbrokers, bias breakers and champions of humankind, let us know what Irish women are changing the world in 2023