Jennifer O'Connell
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2,027 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Jennifer O'Connell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
You would think that would be the end of the matter, wouldn't you?
In 2025, as it was.
Very uncontentious.
But if you thought that that should be very uncontentious, you wouldn't be reckoning on the GAA's nostalgic attitude, let's say, to to women in a time when women dressed like ladies, the ladies that it insists that we still
Still are routine.
Yes.
So the issue ended up becoming the subject of an enormous row and a special congress had to be held in Croke Park last year in May, when a resolution was overwhelmingly passed in favour of allowing players to choose what they wear.
So look, any organization that still insists on telling women how they should dress, despite the women themselves, incredibly gifted athletes saying we don't
How can you say it's not
So I think and there's other aspects of the GA that have always made me uncomfortable.
I think that there is within the organization a cultural blind spot about violence.
Um I think that they minimize v violence in Gaelic games.
They use language like a malee and uh a fraca and handbags and stuff that sort of m makes it all a bit of a joke.
Um and I think, you know, whenever you talk about this or whenever you criticize
Do people sorry, just
the whole culture around it, I think.
And I think, you know, every time this is the thing that really gets me, every time you say something critical of the GA, and I have been critical of the GA in in columns that I've written in the past, going all the way back to COVID.
People will come to you and say but the GA is tremendously important and it has an enormous place in Irish life and in Irish community and at the heart of so many Irish communities and it's done so much for the country.
And all of which is completely true.
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