Ireland women’s captain Lucy Mulhall reaping the benefits of switch to play Gaelic football with Tinahealy
Irish captain Lucy Mulhall went back to her Gaelic football roots – she captained Wicklow to an All-Ireland junior football title in 2011 – when playing for her local club Tinahely with McNulty’s blessing. He revealed that there were a few terms and conditions, foremost of which was that Mulhall was not allowed to play more than half a game per match.
Last season the national women’s Sevens team finished a brilliant fourth in the World Series but suffered the disappointment of underperforming in the World Cup. Fit and focused the goal is to claim one of the automatic qualification places for the 2024 Paris Olympics that are available for the top four teams in the World Series.
“We then went through that process to basically say, ‘where did we make some growth? And where do we need to home in on? It took about two weeks. We aligned exactly what we wanted to get out of pre-season. We smashed that really.”
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