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Madam Politician: The Women at the Table of Irish Political Power

By Martina Fitzgerald

“You should be at home minding the child,” Mary Robinson was often told when she ran for Dáil Éireann in the 1970s, an attitude which helps to explain why only 19 women have ever sat around the Irish cabinet table. RTÉ’s Martina Fitzgerald has interviewed every surviving member of this exclusive club, along with our two female former ...