Eimear Ryan: The Women's World Cup will be Italia '90 for a generation of girls

What we can do next to help that generation grow into the future of the women's sport in Ireland

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For elder millennials like myself, memories of childhood summers are punctuated by the World Cup. 

There were the tense penalty shootouts and billowing tracksuits of Italia 90; Ray Houghton’s head-over-heels celebration at Yankee Stadium; the gut-punch of Saipan and the heroics of Robbie Keane and Damien Duff that followed.