35 ladies footballers from Whitehall Colmcille GAA club will proudly bring the 20×20 flag onto the pitch at Croke Park before Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Mayo. The 20×20 campaign is an initiative that seeks to change the subliminal bias in the Irish psyche that exists around girls and boys, or women and men, when […]
World Rugby have reported a significant increase in the number of women playing the game with the sport’s governing body announcing that there has been a 28 percent rise in registered female players. According to the World Rugby Year in Review 2018, there are 9.6 million players globally, including 2.7 million women, up 10 percent on […]
Laura McGinley is not fond of spare time. She likes to keep busy and between her basketball, Gaelic football and studying at DCU, she makes sure that there’s not an awful lot of time sitting on the couch. “It’s such a foreign thing to me to go home in the evenings and do nothing. I […]
Elizabeth Morland realised she was pretty good at athletics from an early age. The 20-year-old St. Pat’s student first went down to Cushinstown Athletics Club as an eight-year-old and took to the sport almost immediately. She tried her hand at most events, like most kids starting athletics tend to do, but she was good, good […]
Ireland Women’s Head Coach Adam Griggs has named a 29 woman squad ahead of this weekend’s pre-Six Nations warm-up game against Wales at Energia Park in Donnybrook. Linda Djougang, Anne Marie O’Hora, Hannah O’Connor and Claire Boles, Kathryn Dane, Claire Keohane, Ailbhe Dowling and Enya Breen have all been included in Grigg’s squad with the Ireland […]