Slick latte-drinking office workers came face-to-face with pigs and hay outside their offices yesterday as culchies came to the city — looking for women.

Sometimes perceived as the maverick minister who is too honest for her own good, Joan Burton is viewed as having leadership ambitions by the party faithful.

ONE of the last bastions of male domination will crumble this weekend as women make history and join the usually all-male entry at the annual all-Ireland Culchie Festival.