Of the 34 councillors currently sitting on Wexford County Council, just six are female. Of Wexford’s five sitting TDs, just one is female. It’s the embodiment of a national trend that sees women under-represented despite accounting for half the population.
November 1922 coincided with the hunger strike of Mary MacSwiney as part of her continued protest at the Treaty and as her part in the Irish Civil War.
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