Government briefings concerning Covid-19 have been now been the daily 5pm staple for more than four weeks, most of those in lockdown.
Until Easter Saturday we had seen neither hide nor hair of a woman from the government at the central lectern. There had been guest spots from the medical world but the women in cabinet were silent.
This had not gone unnoticed, with articles appearing in national newspapers not unreasonably asking: where are the women? And so yesterday we got one.