-Linda Hogan is 49, married (gasp!), and vice-provost of Trinity College Dublin. She’s the feminist frontrunner.

-Mary McAleese, fellow Irishwoman and former president, might get the Irish back batting for the Catholic side after the church was decimated by the child abuse scandals.

-Lucetta Scaraffia is an academic in Rome who is both a radical feminist and an orthodox Catholic. Last year she launched a women’s supplement to the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano – with the Pope’s blessing.