WOMEN have been urged to support the Lisbon referendum by Yes campaigners who said regardless of what is in the text of the treaty their “actions have consequences”.

IRISH politics is famously full of “cute hoors”.

“THE posters are definitely different to what people usually see” – Councillor Sarah Ryan, 25, is slow to admit it but being young, female and good looking is helping her and others like her, get noticed in the local election campaign.

WHEN the first local elections took place in Ireland in 1899, one newspaper ran a front page story reporting “loud laughter” at the announcement that the ballot would give women the right to vote for the first time in this country.