Clodagh Finn: The first female sports reporter blazed a trail on her Honda 50

It is important to recall a time, not that long ago, when a woman turning up to report on a GAA match was a rare occurrence

Dóirín Mhic Mhurchú had a gift for languages. She spoke five fluently — Irish, English, Spanish, French, Italian — and had some knowledge of Arabic, Polish, Swedish, and German.

On more than one occasion, Dóirín Mhic Mhurchú was turned away at the turnstile when she turned up to cover a football match for Raidió na Gaeltachta. When she did manage to persuade the officials that a woman was capable of covering sport, the palm of a man’s hand came up to stop her from entering the press box.