Episode 2675: Sinead Farrelly On Her Seven Year Break From Football

We are coming to you today from Ireland Base Camp as Vera Pauw hands her World Cup Squad their jerseys and lets them mingle with us; the media.

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Murph caught up with fellow Galway native (and 2004 All-Ireland Final winner) Niamh Fahey. After consoling each other over Galway’s Football Championship exit they spoke child-hood World Cup dreams.

The Journal’s Sinead O’Carroll joined us to give her thoughts on what a momentous moment this is in Irish sport and what she expects from the team in Australia.

Sinead also spoke with Sinead Farrelly, one of the Irish American players named in the squad, who retired through injury in 2016 but later stepped forward to blow the whistle on abuse in the NWSL, detailing alleged sexual coercion by her former coach Paul Riley. It’s only since last July that Farrelly has felt ready to return to football, both physically and psychologically, and she chats to Sinead about what she has gone through to make it to this point.

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And we ask Emma Duffy of The42 about how ultra defensive Pauw’s team will be at this World Cup, if they can really prep to play in front of 80,000 fans in Sydney and if the new arrivals change how we can play.

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