Camogie president Hilda Breslin: ‘Funding for sport is heavily skewed against female participation’

Female inter-county players receive less than a quarter of the Government funding pocketed by their mail counterparts

New Camogie Association president Hilda Breslin. Picture: INPHO/Tommy Dickson

New Camogie president Hilda Breslin has said the distribution of Government funding to sport is heavily skewed against encouraging female participation.

In her opening address as Camogie Association president at Saturday’s congress, the Kildare native said the distribution of taxpayers money across genders in sport is not fair.