real girl sport

Katie Taylor London2012
Irish boxers are competing today and tomorrow in the National  championships with the finals on the 27th. It’s fun to think some of these women could be flying home from Rio next year with a medal.
We’re still living off the Katie Taylor memories from London2012, but hopefully many more to come.  At the time it seemed as if every girl in the country was discovering boxing....

Wordless Wednesday:  the power of learning!
this week's photos in a slidehow by Emanuel Rudnicki
( MuayThai seminar run by Tiffany Van Soest, with Caley Reece and Darren Reece at Riddler's Gym, Perth.)

As blood streamed out of a deep cut under Jorina Baar’s eye, the doctor said if it got worse he was calling the fight. Up to then her head wasn’t really in the fight but on hearing a loss was in the offing, something lit up inside.
That something you see in the picture above was more than enough to win yet another belt; Lion Fight World title (63.5kgs). Now the Dutch MuayThai fighter is searching for a major sponsor so she can focus on training....

Holly Ferling, Australian cricketer    Ursula Jacob, Irish camogie player
Team sports and individual sports don’t often pull together but I read an interesting piece last night by a cricket-player calling for just that.
Australian Holly Ferling thinks women in sport are maybe a bit too focused on worrying about media space, and should instead support each other in getting better. This, she reckons, will lead to a sports pages take-over....