By Judith Gillespie CBE - Chair of the Chief Executives' Forum , former Deputy Chief Constable, PSNI and member of the inaugural Garda Policing Authority for five years. For much of my policing career, I found myself in rooms where I was the only woman at the table. At the time, some people saw that as progress. “We’ve got a woman here now,” they would say, as though that alone was enough. But I never accepted that view. How could any one person represent the full breadth of women’s...

First Minister and deputy First Minister celebrate SistersIN students' success with 800 students from 60 schools across Northern Ireland at ICC Belfast

Thales Mentors 2025/26 Thales  is a global technology company, but at our core we’re a team of people who care about solving real-world problems and building a safer future. That’s one of the reasons our partnership with SistersIN matters so much to us. We want young women to see that they belong in this industry, that their ideas are needed, and that there are many ways to build a meaningful career here.  Mentoring is a big part of that. When we spend time with students, it gives them a...