Clodagh Finn: Still a long way to go before women are heard, never mind heeded

Why do we still have such an issue with the female voice?

Mary MacSwiney, TD for Cork City, stood up in the second Dáil 100 years ago and spoke for two hours and 40 minutes to explain why she opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Picture: Getty Images

It will be exactly 100 years on Tuesday since Mary MacSwiney, TD for Cork City, stood up in the second Dáil and spoke for two hours and 40 minutes to explain why she opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which had been signed some weeks earlier.

She made no apology for it, either.