Tributes paid after pioneer of Irish women’s education dies aged 92

TRIBUTES were yesterday paid to a retired school owner who was a women’s pioneer in Irish education.

She died at the weekend, aged 92.

At her college, shorthand and typing formed the nucleus of the curriculum and many journalists learned their notes taking outlines from ‘Mrs Macs’ as it was known. Its list of former students include former education minister Noel Davern and broadcaster David Hanley.