A small update to our Timeline of the Irish Left today, to reflect the recent relaunch of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) as the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) and the consequent renaming of the Irish section, the Revolutionary Communists of Ireland.
The timeline aims to show the history of left parties and organisations in Ireland. If you spot any errors or omissions or have any suggestions, please get in touch!
https://www.leftarchive.ie/page/timeline-of-the-irish-left/#find-RCI
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Irish Left ArchiveTimeline of the Irish LeftA timeline of the development of left wing political groups and parties in Ireland from 1900 to the present, from the Irish Left Archive.
![A scanned magazine article reading:
And Still They Fight To Survive
The efforts to have contraception methods made legally available in the south started in earnest twenty years ago. Patricia Hegarty wonders if we are any better off today than we were then.
"People's rights as regards contraception weren't given o them - they were won. By people like the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, Mary McGee and the doctors who opened the first family planning clinic. Without them we'd have nothing at all and -what we have at the moment is inadequate.” That's the view of Jon O'Brien, Information and Education Officer of the Irish Family Planning Association.
Under-18s cannot get condoms from their local chemist without a prescription. They can legally be married at the age of sixteen. Some women are prescribed the Pill because their doctor cannot fit the Cap.
Women in rural areas have little access to family planning clinics and have to depend on rural GPs "who would quite often just prescribe the Pill, and not provide proper follow up", according to women attending the Council for the Status of Women’s Health Conference last month.
Abortion is banned [in] the constitution and even the dissemination of information on abortion is unlawful.
Meanwhile, family planning clinics are struggling to survive although they provide a range of services which many doctors cither will not or cannot provide. The Bray clinic is faced with closure from lack of funds and the Cavan g](https://posts.leftarchive.ie/attachments/e6d93480f8aed05ed15355bf8e0293ad0b01bb2ea389880acd06ff1094c61f04/z_mag_contraception.jpeg "A scanned magazine article reading:
And Still They Fight To Survive
The efforts to have contraception methods made legally available in the south started in earnest twenty years ago. Patricia Hegarty wonders if we are any better off today than we were then.
\"People's rights as regards contraception weren't given o them - they were won. By people like the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, Mary McGee and the doctors who opened the first family planning clinic. Without them we'd have nothing at all and -what we have at the moment is inadequate.” That's the view of Jon O'Brien, Information and Education Officer of the Irish Family Planning Association.
Under-18s cannot get condoms from their local chemist without a prescription. They can legally be married at the age of sixteen. Some women are prescribed the Pill because their doctor cannot fit the Cap.
Women in rural areas have little access to family planning clinics and have to depend on rural GPs \"who would quite often just prescribe the Pill, and not provide proper follow up\", according to women attending the Council for the Status of Women’s Health Conference last month.
Abortion is banned [in] the constitution and even the dissemination of information on abortion is unlawful.
Meanwhile, family planning clinics are struggling to survive although they provide a range of services which many doctors cither will not or cannot provide. The Bray clinic is faced with closure from lack of funds and the Cavan g")
