FAI Women's Cup final: When Limerick trailblazers won the first cup

There’s some debate about when the ‘first’ women’s cup final took place but official records place it firmly in Limerick’s legendary Markets Field in 1975, under the auspices of the first Women’s Football Association of Ireland

Market's Field. Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

It is easy to forget the recent sea-change in Irish women’s soccer.

It’s only four and a half years since the national senior women’s side had to threaten strike outside Liberty Hall to be treated with due respect.