Ireland’s first woman president elected 25 years agoMary Robinson pushed the office ‘as far as the wall and peeped over, but didn’t cross it’ As a constitutional lawyer Mary Robinson “went as far as the wall and peeped over, but she didn’t cross it”. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The election of Mary Robinson as Ireland's first woman president 25 years ago was an extraordinary event, Bride Rosney has
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