Catherine Martin has said her party "missed an opportunity" to promote women and heal divisions when appointing ministers. The appointment of three men as Ministers of State was the prerogative of Eamon Ryan as leader, Ms Martin told RTÉ Morning Ireland. Ms Martin, now the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht is currently in a leadership race with Eamon Ryan. "We should always be seeking to promote women. “There was a missed opportunity to promote women and a missed opportunity to unite the party, nobody who voted no or advocated no to the programme for government was promoted to ministerial position and I think that was a missed opportunity to unite.

Source: Irish Examiner July 08, 2020 14:03 UTC