Sarah Harte: Edna O’Brien has passed the baton on to other brave, brilliant women of Ireland

On the day Edna O'Brien was buried in Clare, four of our brightest and best stepped onto the track at the Stade de France and did Ireland proud at the highest level

Sophie Becker, Phil Healy, Rhasidat Adeleke, and Sharlene Mawdsley after the women’s 4 x 400m relay final at the Paris Olympics last weekend.  Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Last weekend made me consider how far we’ve come as Irish women since writer Edna O’Brien was born in 1930.

On Saturday, Edna O’Brien was buried in Clare. On the same day, Sharlene Maudsley, Rhasidat Adeleke, Phil Healy, and Sophie Becker ran the 4 x 400 metres women’s relay race in Paris.