Five women have been elected to Waterford City and County Council, which, although still small numbers, is a breakthrough on the long-time male-dominated Waterford Council, where in 2019 only two women were returned by the electorate.

It is hard to know what Dr Mary Strangman, the first woman elected to a Waterford local authority, would think of the outcome of Waterford’s local elections, where 29% of the candidates who contested the election were women, but only 16% were ...