She was sent to advise Haile Selassie and later in life served as Chair of the Civil Service Commissioners' Interview Panel from 1985 to 1991.

[2] She studied English and French at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1942 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

[3][4] In time she moved to Gardenhurst School in Burnham on Sea, England, as a demonstration of her independence.

[4] In the 1970s it became obvious that equal pay for women and the need to remove sexual discrimination meant that the WRNS and the Royal Navy would become one organisation.

[4] Having left the military, McBride became Director of the City of London Region of Lloyds Bank in 1980.