Kieran Shannon: As GPA achieve grant equality, other second-class athletes can’t be ignored
In addressing one form of inequality, Sports Minister Jack Chambers’ announcement yesterday has highlighted another. Some animals remain more equal than others and that animal is the GAA
Any bit of gender-equality legislation is to be welcomed. But it’d be even greater if Jack Chambers and the Government were to introduce the Irish equivalent of Title IX into Irish sport. Picture: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland
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Fair play to the GPA, they’ve nailed it again.
This time 14 years ago the players’ body, then only representing the male inter-county game, was struggling to gain much affection and even credibility, at least with Paul Galvin anyway. He wasn’t even a member. “I don’t know what they’re doing,” he said. “They need to get a hold of an issue and nail it.”
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Winning the camogie All-Ireland with Kilkenny was magical and mad for champion Collette Dormer
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Collette Dormer showed us what joy is all about as she lit up our TV screens on Saturday evening from Croke Park.
Dormer, who plays with Barrow Rangers club, was part of the Kilkenny senior camogie team who won the Sean O’Duffy Cup for a 14th time after the Cats beat Galway in a gripping All-Ireland final.
After missing out on glory in the last three All-Ireland finals, Kilkenny deserved this win - the sweetest one of all in such a unique year. Kilkenny have been in every final since 2013, except 2015 when it was Cork against Galway – their two main rivals.
Dowling: I am so proud of them
December 13, 2020
By Daragh Ó Conchúir at Croke Park
Beforehand, talk of the impact of three consecutive Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Final losses, the five reverses in seven seasons, and for many of the players, six in seven appearances on the biggest stage, was batted away.
The past had no impact on the present.
But now, with a 1-14 to 1-11 triumph over Galway, and a companion to the 2016 triumph at last, only Kilkenny’s second title since 1994, the truth could be acknowledged in the public domain.
It wasn’t the fear of being the first county to lose four deciders on the trot that drove them though. Just knowing the pain of each one and the damage it had done.