Gary Brennan: It's so frustrating living in a female-dominated sports world
NEED FOR SPEED: Cork’s Shauna Kelly bursts forward during last weekend’s Ladies Football National League clash against Dublin. Our columnist wonders how the GAA world would look if female sport got the bulk of the attention and was in receipt of preferential treatment routinely enjoyed by men.
For as long as I can remember, I have been playing football and hurling. Most of my childhood was spent kicking a ball up and down the back garden. My father made goalposts for my brothers and I, and we kicked and played until light would fade.
The only interruption was when we decided to rattle a sliotar off the gable wall, my mother tapping the window whenever she noticed me switching hands on the hurley to make sure I kept my strong hand on top. Football and hurling made me feel as if I could do anything, as though I could be whatever. The feeling I would get when the ball sailed over those posts...it was magical…as if I were in flight myself, the potential was limitless. I could go anywhere, do anything.
