INTERVIEW: We meet Ireland's first female sheriff

The first female sheriff in Ireland tells Dan Buckley she opposes positive discrimination

Juggling two jobs, a young family and a two-hour daily commute to and from work is challenging, to say the least, concedes Sinead McNamara, the newly appointed Cork County Sheriff and a solicitor with a commercial practice.

Appointed in March, she has hit the ground running, relocating the Sheriff’s office from the South Mall to her own office at Fitzgerald Solicitors on Lapp’s Quay where she is a partner.