Festival celebrates women’s contribution to Irish media

Some leading female media figures have been lined up to take part in a new festival which will celebrate women’s contribution to the media in Ireland.

RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan, PR guru and Irish Examiner columnist Terry Prone, along with columnist and feminist Mary Kenny, will be in Ballybunion, Co Kerry, at the end of April for Women in Media 2013.

The event is the brainchild of some local people in the seaside town, whose initial aim was to commemorate the life and work of the late Mary Cummins, a Ballybunion native and a campaigning journalist with The Irish Times for many years.