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There are some teams whose greatest achievement is not measured by the trophies they lifted, but by the paths they cleared for those who came after them. The Galway senior ladies' football team of 1975 belongs firmly in that category. They may not have returned home with the Brendan Martin Cup, but they carried something every bit as valuable – hope, pride and the belief that Galway women deserved their place on the biggest stage of Gaelic football.

In 1912, the county of Mayo had been through seven challenging decades of continuous population decline. The reasons for such a plummet in numbers were multiple. High infant mortality, disease brought on by poor diet, a demanding lifestyle, and high emigration tested the people of Mayo’s strength to the limit.

IDENTITY - ONE word but it covers a multitude of aspects within an individual. There is personal identity, political identity, cultural identity, national identity, sexual identity, and, more than ever before, a focus on gender identity that calls into question the idea of gender itself.