Ailbhe Smyth is an academic, an activist and a campaigner. She is mainly motivated by feminist, gender, LGTBQI equality and wider social justice issues.

She was the founding director of the women's education, resource and research centre in UCD, she was co director of the Together for Yes Campaign, co founder of the coalition to Repeal the 8th amendment and she is current chair of Women's Aid.

Now in her mid 70s Ailbhe is still very much doing her thing. She's been at the front of many of the protests over the National Maternity Hospital in recent weeks, because as you'll hear in the interview, bodily autonomy is essential to true liberation.

She speaks so beautifully about the changes she has witnessed over the past 40 years, the scars they have left and the work still to do. She remains hopeful and warm and I know this conversation is one I will never forget.

We owe so much to Ailbhe Smyth and other women like her.  

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