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“We’re burning down our children’s home”, Chair of the Elders and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, told delegates to the inaugural Mary Robinson Climate Conference, themed “Communities Creating Change”, which took place in Ballina last week, adding: "but young people should not despair, but instead should be 'prisoners of hope'.

An exhibition examining the effect of rural electrification on women in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s was launched by former President of Ireland Mary Robinson at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, in Turlough Park, Castlebar, last Friday.

Graça Machel, a one-time freedom fighter in Mozambique turned human rights and equality activist will this month visit the West of Ireland.  Together with her husband, civil liberties icon Nelson Mandela, Machel was instrumental in founding The Elders and has made women’s rights a lifelong cause.