California dreamin' but Irish Close comes first for Lahinch's Donegan

“Going to LSU 100% changed my life and my golf,” says Donegan.

Irish amateur golfer, Aine Donegan, poses for a portrait at her home club of Lahinch at the launch of the AIG Irish Women's Amateur Championship Launch 2023. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Talk about sliding door moments. Clare camogie star Chloe Morey was among the 24 female inter-county players up on a rostrum at a Dublin hotel on Monday, describing their struggle to get basics like access to physios and pitches and throwing down a ‘sort it out’ gauntlet to their governing bodies. 

‘Sort it out yourselves!’ That was the refrain Morey said she constantly hears as the country’s top female GAA players appealed to their governing bodies to stop prevaricating on their recent appeal for a basic ‘players charter’.