Girls with Goals: A History of Women s Football in Northern Ireland
Girls with Goals: A History of Women s Football in Northern Ireland
Nicola McCarthy investigates the forgotten players of the women s game and how the English ban of women s football in 1921 impacted locally. Show more
On Boxing Day, 1917, 20,000 fans packed into Grosvenor Park, Belfast, to watch a women s international football match between the North of Ireland Ladies and the Tyneside Ladies.
Starting on that day Nicola McCarthy investigates the forgotten players of the women s game and how the English ban of women s football in 1921 impacted locally. Journey through the years with her to hear how the Northern Ireland Women s Football Association was started in the 1970 s and how the current Northern Ireland women s team is set on making history.