Former international players and trainees on Ireland's first state-funded all-women soccer course have spoken to a joint investigation by RTÉ Investigates and the Sunday Independent.
Multiple female footballers have revealed how they were the subject of alleged unwanted or inappropriate sexual advances from FAI coaches in the 1990s.
Then 21-years-old, Bridget McDonald, who is gay, says a night out drinking with Collins ended in sexual intercourse with the coach, who warned her that she could be pregnant. They included trips to the cinema where she says Collins would"have his hands all over me. It was just nasty." Katie Liston, a former player who is now a lecturer in the University of Ulster, said she felt"stigmatised as a gay woman." She says Cooke told her he was"getting rid of the lesbians" from the team.
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