Olivia O’Leary: Women are still treated differently at work

Veteran broadcaster Olivia O’Leary has revealed her loneliest day in journalism was when she became a mother.

Speaking at the third annual Woman in Media conference in Ballybunion, the award-winning print and broadcast journalist said having children is a public good and warned of the consequences if women decided to “sit down on the job and stop having children”.

“The ensuring of the survival of the race should be central to all economic models but the people who actually do that job are rarely put at the centre of that consideration,” she said.