Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
Issues Facing Women in Sport: Discussion
Ms Mary O'Connor:
I thank members for their comments around the 20x20 campaign. It was a huge success and what it did is that, for the first time in the history of women's sport in Ireland, it unified everybody into coming together. Large organisations and smaller, niche and emerging organisations were all part of the one piece of infrastructure in this country, and it was a huge success. At the moment, we are not looking at another campaign but we realise it was a real success, and that is a credit to the founders of the campaign, Heather Thornton and Sarah Colgan. We are considering trying to maximise the position of women in sport around a different type of campaign.
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