‘Gender is not an issue,’ says New York GAA’s first female chairperson

Joan Henchy insists that ‘gender is not an issue’ after she was elected as the first female chairperson of New York GAA.

In doing so, she becomes only the third woman to head up a GAA county board, and the first outside of Ireland. She follows in the footsteps of Tyrone’s Roisin Jordan and Cork’s Tracey Kennedy — but doesn’t wish to dwell on the achievement too much.