Kieran Shannon: Groundbreaking Cora Staunton is truly an Irish sporting giant

Cora has changed the game in more way than one. And what’s more, she isn’t finished playing or changing it

Cora Staunton of the GWS Giants. Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images

The trouble with — or for — someone as regularly ground-breaking and amazing as Cora Staunton is that we can cease to appreciate just how ground-breaking and amazing they are.

Like a superhero, their latest trick or feat can be merely greeted by a faint fair play or a collective shrug. A bit like Superman again stopping a bullet or saving a schoolbus falling off a bridge, we take their latest accolade or scoring return for granted: Sure that’s what they do. When there’s nothing new in it, what’s news about it?