Women’s fight for equality not won yet, warns Sarah Keane

Despite them getting far greater visibility in recent years, the president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) Sarah Keane has warned that women in sport are “in danger of losing our audience”.

She fears that the equality debate has now switched to areas like gender and race before solving the problems in sport.

“I talk to a lot of men in sport who feel ‘come on ladies, we’ve heard this now, you’re doing fine, we need to move onto other equality issues’, whether that is racism, or diversity, or LGBT,” the OCI president told the annual Sport for Business conference in UCD yesterday.