Only by changing mindsets can we give girls a sporting chance

Just 11% of Irish teens have mastered fundamental movements they should have mastered by the age of 6. The Insight Centre for Data Analytics along with DCU and Dublin GAA today launched the programme which aims to tackle the issue, writes Eimear Ryan.

Throughout the winter, there was a moment on my drive home from work that always lifted my spirits.

Not far from the newly-sprouted Páirc Uí Chaoimh was a large billboard, promoting Lidl’s sponsorship of the Ladies’ Gaelic Football Association. It featured Briege Corkery and Sinéad Goldrick, dramatically-lit and unsmiling, staring down the camera.