'Every one of us said we felt guilty. Well, that guilt should be put to bed now'

Jackie McCarthy-O'Brien was speaking in the wake of an Sunday Independent/RTÉ investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

Jackie McCarthy O’Brien says she was in tears on Sunday morning as she read allegations of inappropriate behaviour by male coaches towards female players in the 1990s.But she hopes that the decisions taken by 11 women to speak to a joint Sunday Independent/RTÉ investigation will pave the way for stronger safeguarding regulations within Irish football.

“Of course, I still felt like I had plenty of years left in me, and I proved that by going on and captaining Ireland in rugby.” “The PFAI are there as well now, but I think at international level there should be somebody there who is completely separate from the organisation. “You can’t have a man in charge walking into a dressing room full of women who are getting dressed, and the same goes for a woman into a dressing room full of boys.”

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