Castleknock College, an all-boys fee-paying school in Dublin, was in the news this week for doing something progressive. One hundred and ninety years into its existence, it has appointed a woman principal.
With this news, we can only hope that there may be more jobs open to women than we previously appreciated. Some day, for example – if we women keep playing our cards right – one us might get to be appointed Minister for Finance or Foreign Affairs or president of the GAA or governor of the Central Bank. A woman might even eventually become leader of Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael, or even one day taoiseach. We could have a woman presenter of the Late Late Show, or chief executive of the Health Service Executive or even – and perhaps I’m just losing the run of myself now – a woman priest.
While women remain frustratingly absent from the upper echel
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