Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington is retracing the footsteps in the US of her campaigning grandmother, who was widowed in the Easter Rising.

Until 1916, this half brick formed part of the wall at Portobello Barracks, now Cathal Brugha Barracks, in Rathmines.

The gender quotas bill is a chance to give women — over half the population — more than an abysmal 15% political representation, writes Clara Fischer