Louise McSharry

I'm not going to just let these things be said.

And sorry, but that's how it needs to be.

Like if you are a quote unquote good man, and if you do respect and care about your, you know, these women who you have trained beside and who, you know, apparently you respect on the same level as yourselves, then why would you laugh?

at that entirely disrespectful comment, whether it's a joke or not.

Like, and I think, yeah, for women athletes, for female athletes, I just feel like so sorry for the women who are working, you know, many of them for their entire career.

Particularly, I saw Abby Wambach, the American, she's a retired soccer player, but very successful soccer players, done a lot for women in sports.

Just speaking with such frustration, just the feeling of like, what is it going to take?

to get a little bit of respect like when will we be seen as people you know and not the laughing stock of a sport and you know it's just devastating to think that we're still at this point when you know we feel like we're making progress

Exactly.

Yeah.

Someone who doesn't live in that sphere.

Yeah, it's pathetic is what it is.

Absolutely pathetic.

Look, we'll stay with sports for a moment because obviously we've spoken before about the fact that Ireland and Israel were due to play each other in football and there was a big question mark over where that would happen, whether it would happen in a neutral country.

We know now that the match is due to take place in Ireland.

There's been a lot of conversation around this, a lot of questions about boycott.

Where do you think stand at the moment?

I think things are going to feel really, really strange and tense that weekend.

Like, I feel worried about it.

Yeah, 100 percent.