TDs should ‘mentor’ female candidates

LEGISLATION requiring political parties to have a certain number of female candidates is “halfway there”.

This is according to Labour candidate Kathleen Lynch who proposed that women TDs should each mentor a potential female candidate on the workings of politics.

This idea was supported by all six of the other female candidates in Cork.

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