In 2014, Sheehy Skeffington won a landmark Equality Tribunal case against the university after it was found she lost out on a promotion on the basis of her gender.

[3] She told The Irish Times that her "family history of trying to address injustice was part of the reason" she took the case:I believed I was representing discrimination against women in general.

[13] From 2018, with journalist Rose Foley, she wrote the story of the campaign in Micheline’s Three Conditions: How We Fought Gender Inequality at Galway’s University and Won.

They are generally believed to be native to Ireland and include such iconic species as Strawberry Tree, Large flowered Butterwort, St Patrick’s Cabbage, Kerry Lilly and Irish Orchid.

[15] Her initial publication on Mackay’s heath, assembled evidence to show this species had probably been introduced originally through carriage on smuggled goods hidden amongst heathland on their route inland from the west coast.