DES: Speaking at the Votáil 100 event in Dáil Éireann, Minister for State for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’ Connor stated, ‘’I welcome wholeheartedly Minister Joe McHugh’s review of the teaching of History up to Junior Cert Level. However more needs to be done. In this historic centenary year of Irish women winning the right to vote, it's become clear that there is a knowledge gap about some of the extraordinary individuals who have left their footprints on Irish life. Women such as Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Countess Markievicz, Maud Gonne, Dr Kathleen Lynn and Madeline ffrench-Mullen..." Read press release