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Alex Barton

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Our National Maternity Hospital

This day four years ago, we voted to change Ireland forever.   We repealed the eighth amendment by a landslide - breaking through the dam of misogyny and lighting the way for a new, more equal Ireland.  But win, there’s still so much left for us to do to make sure…
Alex Barton
25th May 2022
Text says, 'To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.' - Rebecca Solnit. Below is a hand stitching a broken heart together. CampaignNewsNews Update

A Dose of Hope

I know it's hard to feel hopeful at the moment So I want to remind you of our powerful community of people who rise to meet every challenge we face.  Uplift members from all over Ireland are leading on important campaigns, making headlines and holding decision-makers to account.  Our 340,000…
Alex Barton
17th May 2022
Title says, 'Greater than Fear', above a heart with the colours of the LGBTQ+ flag NewsNews Update

Together we are greater than fear

"Together we are greater than fear" This is the message that our community sent to people across the country with our full-page ad in the Irish Examiner, together with the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR), LGBT Ireland and The Rowan Trust. Last month, the devastating murders of Aidan Moffitt and…
Alex Barton
2nd May 2022
Press Releases

Hundreds call on Minister Stephen Donnelly to repeal the deal with the Sisters of Charity on the new National Maternity Hospital

Hundreds of Uplift members have sent messages to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and other speakers attending the Fianna Fáil Women’s Health Conference. They outlined what the approval of the Sisters of Charity’s involvement in the new National Maternity Hospital will actually mean for the future of women’s healthcare. Today…
Alex Barton
28th April 2022
A group of activists dressed as nuns delivering a petition on the National Maternity Hospital Press Releases

Campaigners tell Micheál Martin to ‘Wise Up’ and deliver a public and secular National Maternity Hospital

Today, campaigners dressed as Sr Michael from Derry Girls delivered a 10,000-strong petition to Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s constituency office in Cork City. Campaign group Uplift demanded that the new National Maternity Hospital be 100% public-owned, and guarantee reproductive healthcare free from religious influence. As the government is about to decide the fate…
Alex Barton
12th April 2022
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