Cork mayor: Irish schools 'a bit behind' and should all provide period products

"You can be caught out and be in school and not have the products with you, so they should be there"

Lord Mayor of County Cork, Mary Linehan Foley, said that in this "day and age, we shouldn't even have to be asking for this." File image. 

The government is being urged to provide free sanitary products across all secondary schools in an aim to combat period poverty. 

Lord Mayor of County Cork, Mary Linehan Foley, said that in this "day and age, we shouldn't even have to be asking for this."