Listen "Ireland’s first female envoy"
Episode Synopsis
Cork-born Josephine McNeill became the first Irish woman to head a diplomatic mission abroad in 1949. What would she make of this week’s promotion of Helen McEntee to Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs, almost eight decades after her own appointment?That’s the question that Clodagh Finn asks. The Columnist with the Irish Examiner, author and Researcher of Women’s History joins Seán to chat more about the first female envoy who paved the way in foreign affairs…
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