Politics is a closed gender shop
To have just two female parliamentary party members in the first place could be regarded as a misfortune; to lose one of those, as Oscar Wilde may have put it, looks like definite carelessness.
It was with a great sense of regret that I heard of the decision of Senator Averil Power to resign from Fianna Fáil yesterday. She leaves Senator Mary White as the only female TD or senator in amongst the FF boys, God help us.
