Injured Megan won’t throw in towel on World Cup

“Full of highs and lows, yeah.” That’s how Megan Campbell, with quiet and deliberate understatement, sums up her rollercoaster 2017.

On a very personal note, there was the sadness of the loss in October of her grandfather, Eamonn Campbell, of The Dubliners fame.

“He was always behind me in my football,” says the Irish international, “and whenever we were playing in Tallaght and he wasn’t away gigging, he was always at the games. So people will definitely miss his face in the crowd.