'I’ve never seen a woman do that to a man in a gym': Do women really feel empowered in fitness spaces? 

As a PE teacher in the early 80s, Cliona Foley has witnessed first-hand the evolution in gym culture, but she believes there is still lots to be done when it comes to empowering women equally in fitness spaces

'Women are strong and well able to lift and we’re increasingly finding that’s what they want'"

It was the large stack of pamphlets in the women’s changing rooms, advertising a local aesthetic treatment clinic, that made the red mist descend.

“Everything you need at one place — lip fillers, fat dissolving, anti-wrinkle treatment, plasma pen/fibroblast” was their message and they were strategically placed on a shelf directly in your eye-line at the main mirror.