Politics

Oireachtas honours Mná na hÉireann with Leinster House artworks

Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese are among notable Irish women subjects selected in order to address ‘gender imbalance’ in the building’s portraiture

Bronze busts of former presidents Mary McAleese and Mary Robinson will be displayed in the main former hall of Leinster House

Bronze busts of former presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese are to be installed in Leinster House in an effort to improve the gender balance of the artworks displayed there.

Documents obtained by the Business Post show that a cross-party Oireachtas commission has approved plans to display bronze busts of the pair in the main former hall in Leinster House.

It will also install a sculpture of Eileen Gray, the renowned Irish architect and furniture ...