Mary McAleese vs The GAA / Justine Megan
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Welcome back to the Women's Podcast. I'm Rosheen Ingle. Hope you're all doing well. And if you want to get in touch with us, as always, we're on social at IT Women's Podcast, or you can email us thewomen's podcast at irishtimes.com and do subscribe to us if you can. In a moment, we're going to be talking to a woman who has done a deep dive into imposter syndrome.
So I actually did best for two years. So it was a business economics, social sciences degree. And because they were all kind of best heads as we called them, they were like business focused, they'd be like talking about KPMG and Deloitte and I was like These companies. Like, I had no clue and they were like, Oh, like when I finish I'm gonna go to the big four and I'd be like, The big four, what?
That was the voice of comedian Justine Meghan there. But first, Irish Times Opinion editor Jennifer O'Connell is here to talk to us about some of the stories of the week. Jennifer O'Connell, you're here with us again to talk about stories of the week and Mary Macalese features Mary McAleese versus the GAA. It's amazing. So it was Mary McAleese versus the Catholic Church. Now it's we just sit so a bit similar, can we say? Isn't Mary McAleese like probably shaping? shaking up to be
our most interesting express man.
I think she's
amazing. Like she it's like she she bides her time and and she waits till she has something to say and then by God does she say it.
And that's it. And she always comes from a very well we'll talk about it when we get into this a bit more, but she's always so informed. She's been deep dived into things and then she says what she has to say. And it's with total authority, although some in the GAA might w as we'll talk about. But my brother was um watching the eclipse the other day, or whatever it was, the eclipse that I missed that I was invented. But you were like a total anticlimax. And there was Mary MacAlise watching the eclipse on the side 'cause she lives in town, you know, she lives near my brother, so that was kinda cool. I just I'm a big fan of Mary Macaly's. Yeah, she's
amazing. And you know what I love about her? She comes, she kinda does these mic drop moments and then she just disappears off the stage again. So I immediately emailed her as soon as I read this news story and I was like, Maybe would you like to follow up on this in a knob out? And she sent me a lovely note back, but it was a no. Yeah. So I kind of love it. But I
kinda like it. It's like I have what I have to say, I'm gonna do it in my way, and then I'm gonna retreat and as we can see this fallout. So tell us all about it, for people who don't know what's happening.
Yeah, so a lot of people I and there's no shame for people who didn't know that there was a planned integration of the GA, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association, and the Camogee Association into a single governing body. And apparently I didn't know about this and I have to admit that my sporting knowledge and my GA knowledge wouldn't be top drawer. But this has been in the works for quite some time and it was expected to be um completed by twenty twenty seven. So essentially the three bodies would become one and that would give more equality and and m more, I suppose, more financial power to the women's.
Organizations. Well I hope as part of this integration it's gonna go from the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association to the Women's Gaelic Football Association. Because it's not called the Gentlemen's Football Association. But it's not called the gentleman's football position. I
completely agree with you. And it's just one of the more obvious ways in which I think, and I have written this a few times, and I I'm I mean I always get a lot of pushback when I say it, but I do think that the GEA has a bit of a women problem. And this week it definitely has a woman problem, and the woman being Mary McAleese. So the background on this is that she was appointed independent chair of this integration process um back in twenty twenty two. And the reason probably why I was completely unaware that this was even happening is that it has been a very quiet process.
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