evidence: The 30th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of Ireland will be marked at its General Synod this week. [...] The Church of Ireland's first woman deacon, Rev Katharine Poulton, was ordained to that role three years previously in June 1987. In 2010 she was the first woman Dean of Ossory and installed that Easter at St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny. [...] Currently about one in five of the Church of Ireland’s 500 serving clergy are woman.