Burton fighting to lead discredited and dying Labour

IT WAS billed as a major shift in the tectonic political plates, but did the Earth really move for you?

Probably not for the women of Ireland anyway, even though the two Dáil by-elections pushed the number of female TDs to a new all time high of — wait for it — 27 out of 166.

That’s a whopping 16.3% of the main house of the legislature.