Profile Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy

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Ages:62 (Shortall), 63 (Murphy)

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Newsworthiness: Stephen Donnelly’s resignation leaves them as the Social Democrats’ joint leaders and only TDsin the Dáil

For Stephen Donnelly, what began in Róisín Shortall’s kitchen one day in January 2015 also ended there last Sunday morning.

The Wicklow TD arrived at Shortall’s north Dublin home, with one of ...