Women scoring higher in sports participation

Increased involvement by women in sport means that the gender gap in participation in Ireland is now at its lowest in 11 years.

When the Irish Sports Monitor, a biennial national survey on sporting habits, was first introduced in 2007, the gap in participation rates between men and women (age 15 and over) was 15.7%.

That gap has shrunk to just 4.5%, with 40.8% of women participating in sport compared to 45.3% of men.