Clodagh Finn: A street in dire need of women

Dublin City Taskforce report includes plans to redevelop the GPO as a major public building with a new museum. If it goes ahead, it should include the stories of all the other forgotten women of O’Connell Street and environs

Agnes Ryan: She bought the 30-roomed Burton Hall in Sandyford in 1938 and oversaw a very successful business which, at its peak, employed 500 people in 26 shops, a pub, two bakeries and two tearooms.

Can you spot what’s missing from this line-up? There were several boisterous versions of that question after a photograph of six men, suited and booted, sitting in a neat row was published following the launch of the Dublin City Taskforce report on Monday. Rightly so. Though, to be fair, another photograph from the same launch showed that women actually outnumbered men on the task force itself — seven of its 13 members were women.

Lord Mayor of Dublin James Geoghegan, Taoiseach Simon Harris, Minister Roderic O’Gorman, Minister Darragh O’Brien, Minister Paschal Donohoe, and David Redmond in Dublin for the publication of the Dublin City Taskforce. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photos