Is sport really an inclusive sector?

Kate Sadleir was weighed down with boxes and brochures when she finished her business at the Irish Georgian Society on Dublin’s South William Street last Tuesday. The decision to flag a taxi for the kilometre ride across the city to her offices on Lower Pembroke Street was a no-brainer.

Her driver, conforming to cliché, proved to be an inquisitive type. What, he wondered, did she have in all those boxes? And so Sadleir, World Rugby’s women’s game development manager, explained that it was material to do with the global launch she had just attended for ‘Women In Rugby’.