Product Description
Changing The Game - Irish Women in Sport” documents the success of Irish women in sport from the period 2000 to 2015. Photographs of women from a wide range of sports - cover image is of Katie Taylor.
Hardcover, all photos by various photographers from the Inpho Agency.
There's a wonderful trio of photos of Irish rugby captain Niamh Briggs in the new e-book by Inpho Sports Photography Changing The Game: Irish Women In Sports 2000-2015.
One shows the Waterford woman practising her kicking alone in a stadium, a near daily routine since she began playing rugby 10 years before. The second depicts her unbridled joy at the final whistle after Ireland beat New Zealand at the World Cup. The third shows her tearful devastation after losing to England in the semi-finals.
Most, if not all, of the 14 nominees for the 2015 Sportswoman of the Year award, Briggs being one, could relate to that rollercoaster, even our four-time winner Katie Taylor has had an off-day or two during her career – although, they're hard to recall now.
Experience
The sporting disciplines represented by the nominees is as broad as ever – athletics, rugby, horse racing, golf, squash, boxing, basketball, canoeing, camogie, Gaelic football and soccer – as is the range of experience of the winners: from Taylor and her 18th consecutive title at the European Games in Baku, making her the holder of the Olympic, World, European and European Games titles, all at the same time, to Cork’s Noelle Lenihan who, remarkably, at just 15, won silver in the discus at the Paralympic Athletics World Championships in Doha.
In terms of recognition, Briggs, her team-mate Sophie Spence, Taylor, jockey Katie Walsh, the Irish Grand National winner, golfer Leona Maguire and GAA dual stars Rena Buckley and Briege Corkery probably receive closer to what they deserve than the rest of the names on the list, coming as they do from the sports that get the bulk of the coverage.