In his wonderful autobiography A Shared Home Place the late Seamus Mallon warned that if, after a narrow vote, a united Ireland was imposed on those averse to the idea that “we would be doing to them what they did to us”.

Where are all the statues, plaques, and street names commemorating the work of the women who shaped Ireland, asks Clodagh Finn

Cork — and Ireland — has had the honour this week of welcoming two extra-special guests; two people who as young children in 1942, in Vichy France, were saved from what would have been their guaranteed deaths in Auschwitz.

We must never forget. Four simple words, yet they have breath-stopping resonance when they are spoken by Charlotte Berger-Greneche, one of the children saved by the Cork woman who was memorialised yesterday at the official opening of the Mary Elmes bridge.

The son of the remarkable woman known as Ireland's Oskar Schindler, who is crediting with saving the lives hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi death camps, said it is better to build bridges than walls.

The first pedestrians have walked, cycled and sat on Cork’s newest bridge.

Cork’s newest bridge is to be named after Mary Elmes, dubbed Ireland’s Oskar Schindler, following public involvement in the process.

Cork’s newest bridge looks set to be named after a woman thanks to the public after four leading female historical figures were included on a five-name shortlist.

Name the bridge in honour of Mary Elmes. Born in Cork in 1908 she went on to have a brilliant academic career despite institutionalised gender discrimination.

Corkwoman Mary Elmes was awarded Israel’s highest honour for saving countless Jewish children from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Less well known is her work helping to feed over 80,000 French schoolchildren who faced near-famine conditions. In an area of southwest France the size of Munster, all of the children knew her name...

There have been calls to name Cork’s newest bridge after a woman, and for the public to have a say.

The lives of eight illustrious Cork women were celebrated by projecting their images onto Cork County Council buildings for Women's Little Christmas last week.