Recently retired Cork ladies footballer Valerie Mulcahy has provided a damning insight into the “second-class” treatment of female inter-county players, claiming that the barriers and challenges faced by ladies footballers when the organisation was established in 1974 still exist today.

Philomena Lee will be among the speakers at a two-day international conference in UCC next month.

BOSSES can no longer rely on the defence that a reasonable person would not consider particular behaviour to be bullying, harassment or sexual harassment, it emerged yesterday.