Suzanne Harrington: Stop embarrassing the diaspora with this skorts nonsense 

Are real life Fr Jacks calling the shots?

Suzanne Harrington: "Did the camogie committee not get the memo about how these days men can no longer go around telling women what to wear? That we have done away with this practice?" Picture: Andrew Dunsmore.

It's not often a Father Ted episode makes its way into the news cycle, but here we are.

Skorts. Like a historical re-enactment, a kind of collective flashback to the bad trip that was the status of women in Ireland in the not-distant-enough past.