Eimear Ryan: 2017 - A year when women made themselves heard

In sports, as in politics, we seem to have reached a tipping point. Now we are righteously angry, writes Eimear Ryan

Eimear Ryan: 2017 - A year when women made themselves heard

(Picture, above: Members of the Mucklagh Girls Football Club U15 team, from Tullamore, Co Offaly, celebrate winning a match at the Aldi Community Games Festival in Abbotstown this year. Picture: Cody Glen)

It was the year of The Handmaid’s Tale and Wonder Woman. Of Hillary’s composure as the Misogynist-in-Chief was sworn in. Of 46,000 spectators in Croker for the ladies football final.

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