"Bernadette served as a UK Member of Parliament from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency.

She witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday. She was later infuriated that she was consistently denied the chance to speak in Parliament, although parliamentary convention decreed that any MP witnessing an incident under discussion would be granted an opportunity to speak about it in Parliament.

She stood as an independent candidate in support of the prisoners on the blanket protest and dirty protest at Long Kesh prison in the 1979 elections to the EU Parliament in Northern Ireland, and won 5.9% of the vote. She was a leading spokesperson for the Smash H-Block Campaign, which supported the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in 1980 and 1981, though she remained publicly critical of Gerry Adams and other Sinn Féin leaders.

On Jan 1981, she and her husband were shot by Loyalist terrorists who broke into their remote County Tyrone home. British soldiers were watching the her home at the time, b

Would you believe I had never heard of International Women's Day until I moved to Europe? We don't acknowledge it here in the US. Just Mother's Day. Guess a woman doesn't count for much here unless she's procreated.

So, I wonder what we women of Ireland can expect tomorrow...?

2 great president, head of Revenue Commissioners, today. What more? Make Irish Mothers redundant?

Now if females could drive! Except my daughter. She's brilliant.

There's more when I find it again.

I was thinking more along the March 8th line...?

How about ...

Mar 6, 2008 13:34 | Updated Mar 6, 2008 15:02
Women earn 60% less than men, NII statistics say
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Working women in Israel earn an average of 60% less than men, according to figures published Thursday by the National Insurance Institute (NII) ahead of International Women's Day.

In addition, poverty among women was found to be 7% higher than among men in Israel.