14-05-2025
‘Just give us the choice' – Offaly star Mairead Teehan backs shorts switch ahead of camogie Congress
OFFALY camogie star Mairéad Teehan hopes delegates vote for choice between skorts and shorts at a special congress on May 22.
The pressure of player protests has forced
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PwC GPA Player of the Month for April in camogie, Mairéad Teehan of Offaly, with her award outside the PwC offices in Cork
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Mairead Teehan of Offaly has weighed in on the shorts vs skorts controversy
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And Teehan hopes the player's wishes will be granted to end the saga later this month.
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She said: 'Look, it has dominated discussions. It's something that needed to be done in terms of players standing up and saying, 'Look, we want a choice here.' And it's great to see that teams have been standing up.
'Even in the background, the GPA have been working on this for quite a while, trying to figure out the logistics of it and what we could do.
'But, yeah, look, it's great to see that we're standing up for ourselves as well.
"Like that, it's been an issue for a number of years and when it goes to Congress or something like that, we don't necessarily have that, I suppose, power to actually make those decisions for ourselves.
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'You're relying on your county boards and your delegates to pass those motions.
"So, yeah, it's just something that we felt as a players group that we felt needed to be addressed at this point. It's just great to see everyone coming out in support of us.
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'In fairness to the Camogie Association they did call the Special Congress to try and change the rule.
'But it is now up to the delegates to vote and to listen to what players are saying across the country and listen to what we want.
'It's just that thing of, we want a choice. Like, if you want to stay wearing a skort, that's absolutely fine but it's also that we have that choice to wear the shorts as well.'
Teehan was voted on to the GPA's National Executive Committee this week.
The player's representative body have unanimously passed their own motion to remove the skort as compulsory - and Teehan never liked them.
She said: 'No, I never liked them, to be honest. I was never a fan of them. And I just, yeah, just find them uncomfortable in general.
'Just, I suppose, then like that when you're growing up with brothers and you're kind of watching them going, it's like, why do I have to wear these?
'And like that, you train, you play practice matches in shorts. I'd never personally wear the skort in training or in our practice matches. So, yeah, it's just always something I wasn't a fan of, I suppose.'
Mairéad Teehan of Offaly is the PwC GPA Camogie Player of the Month for April. PwC are proud sponsors of the Player of the Month awards across camogie, hurling, football and ladies football.
