‘Nobody wears a skort down in training, I don’t get it, I think it’s ridiculous’
REPRO FREE***PRESS RELEASE NO REPRODUCTION FEE*** EDITORIAL USE ONLY AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship Final, Croke Park, Dublin 17/12/2022 Loughgiel Shamrocks vs Sarsfields Loughgiel Shamrocks' Caitrin Dobbin with Clodagh McGrath of Sarsfields Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Evan TreacyUnder the rules, camogie players must wear the skirt-shorts combo for matches but there has been a growing call for change in recent years in favour of shorts.
“I just think in this day and age when we’re talking about progress and everything else, like if I was to go out and play against the Munster champions in the All-Ireland semi-final in a pair of shorts, our club would get fined,” adds McGrath. “I would welcome that being changed, to be completely honest.Motions looking for skorts to be replaced failed to make the clár at the Camogie Association congress in April this year, with those proposals deferred until the 2024 gathering.
Camogie star, Clodagh McGrath of Sarsfields, Galway, pictured at the launch of this year's AIB Camogie All-Ireland Club Championships. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile“I think it would be remiss of me to say there isn’t a long way to go,” she adds. “I think there is a lot done and probably a lot more to be done, just so everybody has the same sort of vision for what it looks like.
“There is probably an awful lot of stuff that has to be looked in terms of how do you share resources, how do you centralise power, if you’ve got three bodies under the one umbrella, how do the mechanics of that work? Obviously it’s not easy, there would be a lot of things they would have to iron out but I think it would be welcomed by everybody.”
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