Ireland's Niamh Fahey still holding onto Gaelic ambitions

THUMBS UP: Ireland's Niamh Fahey celebrates. Pic: INPHO/Martin Seras Lima

It is close to a decade since she first started embracing the life of a professional athlete, but Republic of Ireland international Niamh Fahey hasn’t ruled out the prospect of returning to a Gaelic football pitch at some point in the future.

A TG4 All-Ireland senior football championship winner with her native Galway in 2004 under the tutelage of PJ Fahy, the Killannin woman switched regularly between inter-county ladies football and soccer before sealing a move to Women’s Super League outfit Arsenal in 2008.