Out with the old, in with the....

SEXISM, Ming and a bit of bling all characterised the first day of the new Dáil.

Out with the old, in with the....

The wind of change may have been sweeping through the corridors of Leinster House, but it left a whiplash sting on just about anyone who happened to be a woman, or under 58 years of age.

As the Dáil reconvened for the carefully choreographed announcement of the new Cabinet, after Enda Kenny’s return from the Áras, TDs swarmed in to see who would fill the 15 front-bench spaces left clear for the top team.

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