CAMOGIE PLAYERS FROM Ireland’s four regional champions have hit back at a competition that has treated the male and female disciplines unequally.
Poc Fada is an annual competition that tests the skills of hurlers and camogie players.
The sponsors of the competition have been criticised for awarding the winners the regional hurling competition with a ski trip while camogie players only received a medal for their participation.
In response to this members of Uplift, a group focused on promoting equality in the GAA, have contacted Tony Collins, the managing director of Topflight, asking for him to sponsor the camogie regional champions with the same prize and the hurlers.
Speaking about the incident, Catherine McGourty, the Ulster Poc Fada champion, said, “For me this was never about a holiday.”
I knew nothing about the prize before competing. It was disappointing to see the inequality in the Poc Fada and this was not something restricted to Ulster, it happened to all females in all provinces.
The national Poc Fada event is set to take place later today in the Cooley Mountains in Louth.
Members of Uplift are calling for places on the ski trip to be extended to the four regional camogie champions.
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