Fogarty Forum: There’s a chance camogie will oppose shorts again

This Thursday, 150 or so Special Congress delegates convene in Croke Park to vote on allowing players wear shorts or skorts.

FASHION CRISIS: Players from the Derry team wearing a variety of shorts and skorts ahead of the Ulster Senior Championship Camogie Final. Pic: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho

In my hurling and camogie club’s academy, as I’m sure is the case around the country, girls wear shorts. At their Cúl and club camps this summer, they will wear shorts. For the next five years under the Go Games programme, they will wear shorts.

Upon coming under the remit of the Camogie Association at U13 level, they will be told for games they have to don skorts. Think about that: at the most sensitive time in her life when she is beginning to menstruate and becoming so image conscious a girl is instructed that to continue playing the game she enjoys, she must wear a lower body garment that is awkward and uncomfortable.