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Fri 07 Jul 2009McCafferty launches women's Yes vote campaign on treaty
JOURNALIST AND author Nell McCafferty wants to live “under the protection of the EU” and not “in a country ruled exclusively by this or any other Irish government”, she said as she launched the Women For Europe campaign, supporting a Yes vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum.
Describing herself as “an EU addict”, Ms McCafferty compared the actions of the current administration with those of the 1976 government when Ireland “wanted to derogate from European law, giving women the right to equal pay. They didn’t want to lift the marriage bar [when women in the Civil Service were forced to give up work on marriage]”.
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