Labour’s Education Spokesperson Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said that the prevalence of single-sex schools in Ireland needs to be analysed to address issues of gender inequality such as toxic masculinity.

He reckons that the challenges in tackling the issue are exacerbated by children being separated on the basis of gender in schools.

Food writer and critic Tom Doorley and screenwriter and columnist Stefanie Preissner both went to single sex schools, and they gave Mark their opinions on Thursday's edition of The Hard Shoulder.