The Countess is the new grassroots movement on everyone’s lips this week...

This article follows on from our piece about Wicklow Library’s appalling decision to platform trans activist Sara Phillips, a trans identifying male, at an event for International Women’s Day 2022 despite numerous complaints from local women. Women were angry that Phillips was platformed, not only because Phillips has a very long track record of consistently...

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, Wicklow Library hosted an event with Sara Phillips, Chair of TENI, to speak about “topics that affect transgender women in terms of inclusion”. Sara Phillips was born male and fathered three children before starting to transition in the mid 2000s.

In an unprecedented departure from the historical method of counting how many males and females are in the State on the night of April 3rd, 2022, the CSO has advised trans identified people to select BOTH Male and Female on their forms. The CSO will then randomly assign their sex. This is not a viable...

A rally entitled “No woman left behind” was held by the National Women’s Council on Saturday 5th March 2022 as part of International Women’s Day.

In this insightful piece, a Countess Staff Volunteer from Russia, who wishes to remain anonymous due to the sensitive subject matter, gives us her perspective on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.She traces the friendly relationship between the two countries since the collapse of the USSR 30 years ago, and explains that many Russians believe...