Helping women take the plunge into local and national politics

See Her Elected has been set up to support women who want to enter the political arena, but don't know where to start

Holly Cairns, Social Democrats; Jennifer Carroll Mac Neill, Fine Gael; Catherine Martin, Green Party; Orla O’Connor, National Women's Council of Ireland director; Claire Kerrane, Sinn Féin; and Bríd Smith, People Before Profit. at an event last year to celebrate newly elected women TDs. Picture: Maxwell Photography

It’s the photograph that gets to you first. Then the numbers sink in. You turn over a page of your newspaper or stop mid scroll. There they are. All the men. 

And the stark reality of how many men and how few women are in politics swims glaringly into view. What needs to happen to see HER elected?