Irishman Running Abroad with Sonia O‘Sullivan: ”The Women In Sport Episode”

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week Jarlath talks to Sonia about all the challenges facing women in sport and how we can keep young girls involved. Together they reflect on how few and far between the options once were for young girls interested in pursuing sport in a serious way in Ireland as recently as the early 90s. Has enough changed? Sonia gives her opinion what needs to happen for change to take place for this generation. We also get an update on her elite training group at Nike HQ in Oregon. This week German athletics hero Konstanze Klosterhalfen invited Sonia to a yoga class on a rest day. We get her take on an activity she has resisted for some time. Join our running event on strava.com/clubs/irishmanrunningabroad and help raise vitally needed funds for our chosen charity partner jigsaw.ie and all the work they do to support young people in Ireland. Why not join Jarlath in raising money for Jigsaw by signing up to the Irishman Abroad challenge over at https://www.idonate.ie/event/2576_.html To hear every episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 500 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Supplementary research provided by John Meagher. The Irishman Abroad Liveline is now open. You can now get in touch with us and feature on our shows by sending your WhatsApp voice note to 0044 7543 122 330. Why not pose a running question to Irish Olympic Legend Sonia O'Sullivan or ask our America Correspondent Marion McKeone her thoughts on a current talking point Stateside? Of course, if you have an issue with traffic or elephants on the loose in your area, Jarlath can do his best to sort that out too. Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	You know, I like to be fit and healthy, so the best way I know is to just get out there and run.
0:09.0	Running was an outlet for me to, I guess, feel good about myself and take out some of the angers that were going on in my life.
0:15.0	Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to Ireland.
0:20.0	Today on Irishman running abroad.
0:22.6	Sonia talks to me about all things relating to women and girls in sport, from the issues
0:28.6	of participation to remuneration, representation to coverage and everything in between.
0:34.6	What steps have been taken in recent years to help level the playing field
0:39.4	and what does Sonia feel needs to happen before we will see even more real changes? Sonia, the options
0:47.4	and opportunities available to young girls now are obviously light years away from the Ireland you grew up in.
0:55.8	Maybe we should start by telling us a little bit about that time and what exactly was available
1:00.2	to you and why or whether that was the reason why you wound up running.
1:05.6	Yeah, it's interesting really because people often ask, you know, did you do any other sports
1:10.4	or did you take part in any other
1:11.7	sports and i was listening to a podcast last week as well with derville or rourke and she was asked the
1:17.5	same question and gerbil is a little bit younger than me but she was actually had the similar answer
1:23.5	so that was probably about 10 years later and um, you know, she said he kind of fell into
1:29.0	running because that was really the only thing. She played soccer outside the house in the,
1:35.8	in the local green with the boys. But when it came to actually competing and, you know,
1:41.0	I suppose moving off the ranks and achieving stuff, there really wasn't that much available to girls in the, so that would be the 80s, the 70s, the 80s, maybe into even the early 90s.
1:53.3	But now, I think things have changed a lot.
1:55.9	And there's so much more available to girls at the moment.
1:59.1	And they have so many, you you know role models to look up to
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