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Shínigh Scarlett Ní Earaín a céad chonradh gairmiúil le Hibernian Women ó Shamrock Rovers i Meán Fómhair 2025.
Ó mBaile Múineacháín d'imir sí le Peamount United agus Athlone Town agus í ag fás aníos di, rinne Scarlett ionadaíocht ar Éirinn ag leibhéal Faoi-19, agus bhuaigh sí Gradam Imreoir Idirnáisiúnta na Bliana Faoi-19 na mBan in 2023. Tá Scarlett ag súil lena céad ghairm chuig foireann shinsearach na hÉireann a fháil amach anseo.
Scarlett Ní Earaín signed her first professional contract for Hibernian Women from Shamrock Rovers in September 2025.
From Monaghan originally, she played for Peamount United and Athlone Town growing up, Scarlett represented Ireland at Under 19 level, winning the International Under 19 Womens Player of the Year in 2023. Scarlett looks towards receiving her first Irish call up in the future.
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When did you decide that you wanted to be a professional footballer?
I'd say it was probably, it's one of those things we always grew up, like, love and
playing sport and playing every sport under the sun.
So since their daughter was, you know, flat-out with a ball at my feet, but then I think
it was actually during COVID, I got massively into, you know, wanting to improve myself
and the fitness and everything.
And I think that was when I really was like, right, I can try push on and try and make
a career at this.
So I think it was actually during the lockdown, like all I did was, with my spare time.
Obviously, it's so much spare time.
I was in four-fear and schooled as well, so there wasn't much going on.
And I was just training all the time and my dad always repulsed to me that it was, then
I said to him, dad, like, I'm going to, I'm going to play for Ireland one day.
And he kind of laughed at me and was like, yeah, right, yeah, you will, yeah, great.
And then a few years later, as you mentioned, there was plans for the under-19s, which
was, it was a long journey from, from that day, I said it to him when I actually, when
I actually first played, but, yeah, it was, it was probably back then.
Keahog Spragog, who, what's the inspiration for you to start that journey and to want to
play for Ireland?
Um, during Wilshmut, I heard, like, Vichet, it's Joggy Gok sport, fresh and nervy, so
you get August Firmesha, Eccorsi CLG, fresh and they get much, like, a Clashy Maracan,
August Le Balion Maracan, fresh and they get level Fuyish Kunde.
And August, yeah, just on the moment, like, to share, to share my coach Spragog's sort of,
you know.
And so, we much, again, going to gargently care, like, Emarch, August Fishe, Egonie, Torch sort,
Tahidom, August, like, Torch, I could, I could Tahidom sort, August, just, like, peace, peace
is tricks and tips, you know.
Um, so yeah, Jarenga Vesha, Eogustushe, Goklehogustushe, Fekenture Goklehogust, Futertner,
Tommision Albion and Chaut Tommision, Eccorptal, Ljacchelt, Helen Chalken, Fekenture,
McGamertchugust, yeah, it's Tommision Broder, Lassum, sort of, Shinrodjask, Wemishin
on Eschenahor Chirashto.
You mentioned obviously your dad was a huge inspiration for you growing up and sparring
you on, but in terms of watching female athletes at that time as well during Covid, like,
who stood out for you, who were your role models growing up?
Yeah, well, I think, um, even watching the games the other night, it's all that generation
of, um, of women's footballs coming through, like, the Leicester Cady McCabe at Arsenal,
like, she, I think, is a role model for thousands of girls across the country now.
It just saw how far you can go, like, she won, during the Champions League of Arsenal
last year.
She has countless accolades, um, like, we had Russia, little John Plenifos, uh, with
Shamar Grover's last year, for a short period, and, um, she was a great, a great person
to look up to for me even at the time, um, played at such a high level, and obviously
has nearly a hundred Irish caps as well.
So, um, her experience was the second and on to be able to learn off.
So I think there's, there's countless players on that Irish women's team that I think I
would have looked up to, and even the likes more locally, um, on your governance, Stephanie
Roach, were kind of the household names that I would have been familiar with growing
up.
And Irish perspective, they were obviously the big names in both playing locally as well.
I know Steph went abroad and sort of dawn at one stage, but they're both playing league
of Ireland at the time.
And then to, to come up sort of through the league of Ireland ranks and to end up playing
on the same team as both of them and then being managed by, by Steph last year, uh, I think
was a kind of a full circle moment.
I, um, I actually remember, um, for my 16th birthday, one of my friends made a bit of a
collage of different people.
She got to wish me a happy birthday, people in sport, you know, um, had like Michael Murphy
and things like that, but Stephanie Roach, for example, was actually one of those.
And then fast forward to only two years, um, I was actually playing alongside her.
So, uh, that was pretty good.
Um, what was that like?
It's strange.
It's something I've actually never told her, um, because, you know, she becomes your,
your friend as well and more than anything as a team mate.
And, um, after then obviously went into, into management was managing me for a few months.
So, uh, it is, it is a bit surreal.
You kind of have these moments where you do look back and you look at how far you have
come and like, there's obviously a lot of things I still want to achieve in my career,
but, um, even as I said, they're to play with the likes of those players and to play
with the likes of Roosh as well.
Um, and just players who have had such decorated careers is, is really, really special.
And it helps you grow as well as a player yourself.
So you came off then from wanting to be, um, a player and made that decision in, in
during the COVID times.
And then you're playing with Pee-Mont United, you're playing with Atholm Time,
you're playing with Shambra Covers.
What was that actually like?
How did you find playing within the artisty league here in Ireland?
Yeah, I think it's, it's always a step up, um, I think come and like, I was playing with
the boys and Monand, like until I was 15, which is really, really, Leah.
So I would say for a girl, um, coming up through League of Ireland ranks, like I only played
big of Ireland under aged 16.
So I think there was a few years behind in terms of, you know, making your, the name
for yourself, but, um, yeah, I think that the league here is growing, um, I think it
hasn't proven off a lot in recent years.
And we see a lot more players now going abroad, going to Blacks of England, to Scotland.
And then you have the girls as well who are going on scholarships to America.
Um, so it is providing a lot of opportunities for young girls to come through.
And I think the next step now is about just returning and those players and trying to
create a better platform, maybe professionalising the league a bit more.
But as I said, the league has grown leaps and bounds in recent years where we have
grown to sort of a semi-professional, uh, name, um, and yet the quality of the league is
growing every year.
And I've seen that with, with plan and I think for a young player coming up, it's great.
It's great exposure to, you know, first team football and your plan against older girls
who are more experienced and are better than you.
And it's, um, it's kind of a sink or swim, you know, you have to learn your trade very
quickly or else you'll be, you'll be lost amongst them.
And again, then to high burning, like, how did that come about?
Do you have an agent to brought you over there or what was the steps that got you over
to Scotland?
Yeah.
So I have a, I'm with an agency called Generation Z, which is very, I suppose,
apt to my generation.
Um, and yeah, so it just came about in September and, um, it was kind of a two week
process of, um, them trying to, I suppose, make a deal with chamber grovers.
And then obviously from my side of things, it's always been a dream of mine to play
football full-time and to play at a professional environment.
And that's what Herbert Ian was offering me.
And, um, yeah, I'm loving it so far.
Uh, it's, it's another step up again from the League of Ireland.
Um, they have five full professional teams here in Scotland, which is something that we,
unfortunately, don't have at home as of yet.
Um, but yeah, really, really excited, uh, being here.
And it's a, it's a great step up for me personally.
And when you talk about the changes and the big step up, like what for you was the biggest
challenge in that step up?
Well, I think the, the quality is that much, is that much better?
You know, um, the speed of play, the, it's, um, you know, it's, it's a tougher game to,
to come to terms of, like, it's even in training in my first training session.
You're kind of, you're, you're, you're a bit, you're a bit all over the place
because the standard is that much better.
Um, the bootball moves quicker, everyone's quicker, uh, the movements are better.
You know, the understanding of the game is better, uh, everyone's quicker,
faster, fitter, stronger, you know, it's that one level up, um, and then as well,
like you're moving, you're moving away from your family.
Like I was in, um, I was in UCD the last few years.
I'm in my final year now, um, trying to complete it remotely,
which to be fairly UCD, I've been very, um, sort of flexible with that, um,
but like you're, I'm moving away from all my friends, uh, in Dublin and everyone in
Monon as well.
So I suppose that as well as something that people, the side of things that people
don't see is the, the sacrifices you do make, moving away from all your sort of
loved ones and your friends and, um, and yeah, your college experience.
I suppose as well.
How do you think stature is the college to, uh, to begin, uh, sport,
actually, uh, August, canoe, sort of mask on the chin,
like the mile at a, oh, yeah, it's around on me.
Yeah, uh, to me again, of my dissertation, I can move on to show, um,
the lived experience of women on Irish sport, oven and board.
So, um, sort of value, um, old, sorry, I could tie, uh,
Aigleborough, like, you know, like to sport an aeronogus, kind of,
sort of, sort of, kind of, uh, first year, I could roll, I guess, uh,
call us a wheelchair, like a Gary on August, the, the quotas that came in a
few years ago, uh, the sport Ireland, um, what organizations are following,
said protocol and said quotas.
Yeah, really interesting.
And I know that we'll be talking to you again about that.
You mentioned your heroes there, um, Katie Rashida, um, lots of different
people and Stephanie, of course, as well.
What did you know about the work that they did in promoting women's
football here in Ireland?
Because when you read back, you were too young at the time in 2017,
and you were hearing all about, you know, that they had a change in the toilets
or they had to change, uh, had to change the kit.
They weren't like to keep their kid.
And then they fought to get equal priority and equal rights.
What was that like, um, here and about that?
And what way did that influence you?
How you looked on them and also on the sport here in Ireland?
Yeah, I think, um, you can only look at them with the height of respect and what
they went through to, to create a better pathway for my generation for the next
generation, uh, you know, better standards and more professionalism, um, within
I suppose the FBI and how they were treated as senior international players at the
time wasn't good enough.
And it's a very brave thing to do to be able to stand up against an organisation
and to fight for I suppose how you believe you should be treated.
Um, so I think they've only done like brilliant things to grow the women's
game here in Ireland.
And as I said, they've been the role models for, for my generation coming through
and for, uh, I'd say a lot of girls to come in the next generation as well.
So you get, you go do your club and then you get to play for Ireland.
So talk to us about that.
How did that come about?
Who, can you remember who you get me that phone call and where you were when you
heard that you'd meet the team?
Yeah, well, I suppose it's a bit of a, it's probably a slower process than a,
just getting a call one day, um, I went in for, I got called into an assessment.
So you go in and there's maybe 50 girls there and you all do a game and train
and whatever and then they kind of pick from that crop.
And but it's over the course of like a few weeks.
So you might have two or three times you'd go up top.
It's time to go down to Lemurk sometimes or waterford and you'd have different
camps and then, um, I'm trying to say it was my first game was in St.
George's Park with good England.
And I actually remember I was in the car from a moment, dad and we were driving
home from the last assessment.
And it was really quick because the camp was two weeks later.
Um, so they decided on the day of their, their sort of first squad of the
campaign. Um, and I remember just getting an email and my dad got an email when
he was driving and they had to crash the car.
Uh, there was not much excitement in, uh, in the car.
But yeah, that was a really special, special time and, um, then obviously went
onto the, uh, successful enough year with the Irish under 19s and, um, yeah.
As you said at the end, um, picked up an award for my personal, uh,
contributions as well, which was, which was really, really special.
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Yeah, as you said, they're like you,
you, um, there are sacrifices,
you're proud of what you've done.
There's sacrifice in a lot of different levels,
but before games, do you get nervous?
Oh, yeah. Like, um, I think every athlete in the world,
as whether you're a plan for your local team,
or whether you're a plan in the work of final,
the log get nervous.
Like, it's one of those things where you don't really believe
yourself when you're going up.
It's like, um, your idols, your, your role models
all get nervous.
It's something that you wouldn't believe.
And because you think that it just comes naturally to them.
But yeah, every, I think every athlete
in the world deals with the nerve,
with maybe, you know, being anxious
after a proper performance,
and maybe bouncing back with confidence,
like it's something that a lot of athletes do have to deal with.
And it's probably because, like,
why sports psychology has become so popular in the last few years.
And we've seen the effects that have had on,
on certain GA teams and on league of Ireland teams.
And why so much emphasis is put on sports psychology nowadays,
because it does give you that edge.
And a lot of the time in sports,
in top elite sport performance,
you know, everyone has the same,
who's enough to the same skill set,
but it's the mental capacity of,
of certain teams to be able to push through hard times,
whether that's in the game or whether that's in the season.
You'll have, you'll have bad patches
that you need to get through as a collective
and as a, as a personal level as well.
So, um, I think that's something that's really important.
But yeah, I think nerves are something that everyone has.
But I think it's a positive thing.
It means you care, you know,
it means you're passionate about it.
It means you want to do well for yourself,
your team, your family.
And it's, it's something that's natural.
But I think a, a sign goes on,
you learn to deal with it a lot better
than maybe you would have when you were younger,
thrown into the deep end of the big game
or whatever it might be.
And when you speak about getting into bad patches
or trying to get yourself out of that,
like what have you learned,
or what are the techniques that you use
to help you deal with maybe nerves
or dealing with a period
where you're not playing particularly well?
Well, I think one thing that, um,
I didn't do when I was younger,
like when I was younger, I was just so obsessed with football.
It was kind of the,
it was the thing that consumed me,
like there was nothing else.
Like I, as I said, made so many sacrifices.
There was times where you would isolate yourself
and, you know, you neglect other areas of your life,
whether that be your friends or your family,
which is, it's sometimes it is a sacrifice
that you need to make.
And sometimes it's maybe something that you don't realize
how much you need.
And that's something that I learned
when I was younger of.
You need other outlets.
You need other hobbies.
You need friends that don't know about football.
You know, um, one of the best things for me
for the last few years was when I used to go home
to the girls I love with a new city.
And they wouldn't have a clue
even that I was playing that day.
And if you have a bad game or whatever,
go home and they, they're talking about
something completely different to football, you know,
and it's, it's important to have those outlets
and to have other hobbies,
whether that's physical,
a physical activity or non-physical activity,
you know, to be able to switch off from it.
And because I think that's something that helps a lot.
And just that if you,
even after a good game, after a bad game,
you need to be able to switch off
and to forget about it, you know,
and what's done is done, put it behind you
and focus on whatever's next.
But I think switching off
through other, other friend groups
or other activities is really, really important.
It's something I've learned that you,
you have to do for your own mental, your own mental state.
And you mentioned as well that playing senior,
that's something that you really want to do.
How do you, as a young player,
get yourself in front of a character ward
in front of that senior set up and go,
look at me.
How do you, how do you go like that?
Yeah, I think that's,
it's the hardest part really is being noticed initially.
So I think one thing that's really prevalent topic right now
is the under 23 use the,
there's no under 23's for the Irish women's team,
which is a big shame because I think it's something
that would benefit a lot of young girls in the country.
After you finish under 19 international,
there's nothing until the senior team.
And that gap is so big.
And it's only expanding because if you're playing
in a league of Ireland as a young player
and the Irish senior team are all playing
and say the WSL are in Scotland
or in the championship in England,
you know, there is such a gap there.
So I think we need something to bridge that gap.
But I suppose for me personally,
I'm just trying to improve as much as I can,
did a day.
It was a massive factor of why I wanted to move abroad.
It, as I said, to your leader like to play
in a full time professional environment
is something that's really important to me.
It's, I suppose, to put yourself in an uncomfortable scenario
to not be one of the best players in your environment
and to feel uncomfortable on day-to-day basis
and training to be coming up against better players than you.
And that's the only way you can improve.
So I suppose for me, it's just looking to learn
as much as I can in this new environment,
which you just need to relish as much as possible.
And do you ever hear, because obviously you
are coming as under 19 international player of the year,
a few years back.
Do you ever hear from Irish management?
Does anyone ever say, do you look at Scarlett?
We're keeping an eye on you.
They're in contact with you encouragement.
Do you ever hear anything from the FAI or any of the
senior management about your performances
and what you may need to do to make that next level?
Yeah, there was a, we had a development team a while back.
It only came in for a few days,
which was, I suppose, a good sign.
We played the under 19s and a friendly.
And it was kind of like an under 23 structure,
but since then, that's unfortunately been scrapped
for, I'd say, budget reasons, which is disappointing.
But yeah, no, apart from that, I think it's,
I'm not exactly sure how it works,
but I've been in certain provisional squads and stuff like that.
You don't exactly get a phone call,
unless you're going to be in the squad.
So you're kind of just anxiously waiting
and trying to see how well you can play.
And then at some stage, hopefully in the future,
I'll get a phone call on one random day from an unknown number
and I'll answer it, and it'll be, you know, the best thing.
But yeah, until then, you just have to focus on yourself.
You know, there's no one going to be sitting you down in town.
This is what you need to do.
You know, there's no one to sort of molly call you into the setup.
So it's all on yourself.
You know, if you play well enough, you'll get noticed.
So that's my focus.
Well, you learn much more from Gaelica.
So while you know how to play Gaelica,
you also have to learn a lot more from Gaelica.
And I want to get some of this fun,
because you can know that,
of course, you want to do what you want to do.
So I want to talk a bit more about Gaelica
and your story like I mentioned before.
So I kind of want to talk a bit about you.
I want to get more along with Gaelica.
I don't like to say anything, because it's a little bit easier, you know.
So yeah, it does mean a slash, I guess,
to me, and, like, to my co-brood, or last time,
and I co-welming on Gaelic or large,
but I like to call it, to me, it shouldn't be any knock-willing Gaelic.
I can't just touch the gari at all,
I can't really knock-willed shit full of magas.
Like, oh, it could be, you know, shitly and dish.
And I told you, it's a bunch of Scottish and East Jacker,
and they're, I ain't doing East Jack, you know.
And, but yeah, if you're going to do like, I'm the Gaelic, I guess,
I'm changa, I guess.
Tom Cooper, who, like, has an un-culture-a-togging march here.
And, I guess, some changa, a-huggin-lash.
So, yeah, it's really going to talk, and special to don't,
so I guess, to shake fast, fresh, and, like, to nice mood in the area,
full of magas, to shake always,
a gluten-kin, and a little hand-to-shot fresh,
and so, to shan, to shan, and yas, like, oh.
I always find it amazing when you actually speak Irish to people.
Most people will try and respond with something,
and I think that's really important.
It's shocked in the Gaelic, but it should be shocked in the Gaelic,
every week, because everybody has some amount of Irish,
as you're using that couple of vocals.
So, I often find, if I even say,
go to my gig or Sloan or Fulcher,
even the worst people know, they'll actually say something back to you.
Have you found that experience with the language for yourself,
speaking that with your friends and different people, too?
I'll definitely, yeah.
And, like I was involved in coming Gaelic in UCD,
before, obviously, I moved to Scotland,
and, like, it's a really special community,
and I think, to be, to involve yourself with people
who are passionate about the language,
as well as really important,
and to share that passion of people,
because, you know, it is,
it's becoming a popular language again,
and, you know, people would have said,
years ago, you know, to share,
to share, to, and Django Marov,
and it's, it's nowhere near us, you know.
And so, I think it's, it's great to be able to surround yourself
by, by other Irish speakers,
and by people who, as you said,
just want to, to put their bit of cup of fuck in there,
and to maybe speak it in,
in day-to-day life, and if you go into the shopper,
to go for a coffee or whatever,
it might be, someone might not have,
you know, fluent Irish, but the fact that, you know,
you're making an effort, and you're,
you're trying to improve your,
your cup of fuck, and your use net is,
it's, it's really great.
So, it's one, it's the one thing that I'm really missing
over here in Scotland,
they have Gaelic over here,
but it's not the same as our old Irish.
Now, you might be fluent in that before,
and, are we for a while?
For a while, for a little bit.
That's, talk to us just about,
about the football over there.
So, you're playing with Hibbs at the moment.
You're, you're in fifth in the table, isn't it?
I think at the moment,
and you just, game against Celtic coming up as well,
even big game coming up against Celtic at the weekend.
Just talked to us about Hibbs this year,
obviously won the title last year,
but where are the at in terms of winning a title this year?
How do you say it going?
Yeah, well, the won the league last year,
so, I was trying, obviously,
the champion winning team of last season,
and we're going into the split now,
so it's a bit of a different thing
that we don't say it in much in Europe,
in European leagues,
but it's the same in the men's half of the season
that they split it into the top half,
in the bottom half,
and then the top half play each other again,
twice in the same with the bottom half.
So, it's, we're going into a really competitive period now.
We've, by ten or so games left,
and it's, it's all to play for a really,
if you look at the table, it's, it's quite tight.
So, it's a really exciting time,
like we have, we've three games in the next seven days,
starting on Sunday against Celtic, as you said.
So, it's a, it's a really exciting time,
it's going to be, it's going to be obviously a difficult period,
but it's one where, you know, we're looking to relish,
and I'm with a really special group of players,
who are all, you know, serial winners,
and I want the best for the, obviously, for the team,
and are always looking to improve.
So, yeah, I'm, I'm happy, I'm happy to be here,
and I'm really excited for the next few weeks,
as we come up to the sort of business end of the season.
What is that like when a new manager comes in,
because do you feel that you have to prove yourself
from the start again, or how, how does that settler
on, certainly, you?
Yeah, I suppose that can be the case sometimes,
but then in our situation, Joel Murray is our new manager,
she was actually a coach for the last two seasons with us as well.
So, a lot of the girls are familiar with her,
and I would be myself as well, just from the start of the season.
So, it's been a bit of a smooth transition,
then maybe if someone from the outside came in,
but Joel was a former player, she kind of,
she kind of did what Stephanie Roach did in the League of Ireland,
you know, she played in the League for years,
and then retired and became a coach after that.
So, it's kind of the same as that.
But yeah, she's been great so far,
and has really jelled the group together.
So, I think it's been a smooth transition,
and it is always difficult to your,
when a manager, a new manager comes in,
but it's been an easier transition than usual, let's say.
And do you get a chance now to keep abreast of what's happening here
in there, and know how you have the premier division,
because Tassal can grow to Gamerz Labaliahaloo,
and so I mean, that's a big thing,
and during the Tory and Shaw,
I guess, I can't say that I know I'm a little timid,
but I'm not going to do anything.
No, no, I'm not going to say that.
I mean, actually, Sualia and Jerry Shachner,
I guess, listen, on British, we're going to our shunter,
and our Shachner,
and we may hang on Presidents' Cup,
again, you know, Aaloo and other Shalburns,
and Jerry Shachner.
So, yeah, Tom Foska for Leshin Shach,
Sualia, so being McFierci and Chair,
Kylik Lenneth, so,
don't try to touch on Jerry Shachner Shach,
so, yeah, to make Tom Foska more Leshin,
I'll just be a McFierci and Chair in Telefish,
just at her and McFierci and Chair in the Tory,
like, a talk to each.
Yeah, and Aaloo and Tyne, of course,
hugely strong.
They won that Presidents' Cup.
I think it was their third,
was their third and four years that they won.
How do you fancy or what chances do you feel
that they can win the league again this year?
Yeah, I think Aaloo and Tyne are looking really strong,
and I think they're,
they're squad-depth,
this exceptional,
even the players to come off the bench,
they're Dena Sharif, who came back.
A lot of people were looking to calibrate,
obviously, she left that loan.
She was their top score last year,
and went to Crystal Palace in the off-season,
so they were looking for who's going to replace her,
and Dena Sharif's came back into the league.
I played with Dena at that loan when I was there,
and she's a phenomenal player,
just as an eye for gold,
and she's come into Atlone and scored at the weekend as well,
so I think Atlone just have a lot of talent in that side,
and they seem to, whatever they have,
it's working for them,
they've obviously clicked as a team,
the last few years,
and I would, I'd back them again,
to retain their, their private evasion title this season.
So Ireland, we were all glued to watch on them during the week,
so France and Netherlands didn't work out too well.
Let's just talk about the games overall,
first of all, Scarlet,
and I mean, how disappointed were you,
like, were there games that you feel Ireland should have won,
or how disappointed were you with that result?
Well, I think the fact that everyone watching after the game
felt disappointment is the great positive to take,
you know, they're two of the top sides in the world,
and France and Netherlands,
so I think to, to not get a result,
I think was, was disappointing,
but I think the way that the girls played,
and sort of the aggression they showed,
they showed, and how well they did,
you know, on the ball, was, was tremendous,
and, you know, I think they probably did deserve,
especially the France game that deserved a better result.
It needs to solve 100-grade chance in the last few minutes,
that was cleared off the line,
and, yeah, I think they did deserve more from the two games.
There's a lot of learnings to take from it,
obviously, with the goals conceded,
but I think Karla Ward and all the girls should be,
you know, proud of the performance there.
I think there's a lot to build on,
and even if you look at the group run,
it's the two games against Poland,
and a few weeks' time that are the really talons,
if we can pick up four points from those two,
we'll put ourselves in a great position
for an easier playoff to qualify for Brazil in 2027.
And can we get those wins?
100%. Yeah, Poland had a draw against Netherlands
over the international break,
so they're not an easy side by any means,
but definitely a team that we can try,
get points off, as I said.
Like, we have a team that's coming into form now,
and then two performances.
There's a lot of positives to take.
I think Emily Murphy was exceptional
over the two games as well.
A really exciting young player who's come in recently
and, you know, really held her claim
for a starting position,
and then, obviously, if Katie McCabe as well,
and Denise Sullivan was a huge miss in the Netherlands game,
and she's going to be backfit for the Poland games as well.
So, yeah, I think we're looking to target those two games,
and if you can get four points from them,
then report yourself in a really good position.
So, let's welcome, Jay,
just majorly, I think,
to the Emory,
the Dienio,
the Targary Toss of the Marwuhar War,
and then she can reach Paola.
Cut the vista, Rolo.
To Lone,
Lolo, Lolo,
Lolo,
both Gerin and Rullis Estobacty,
Leroladienio, again, not just Oberg or Krueh,
you know,
August Bunch, Tatnavas,
Shin Rulli,
and then people,
Jan and Dienni,
Jarmadir,
Fashion,
like Katie,
Tatnava Bunches,
and Kutztoros,
Fashion, Marwuhar,
to Dienni,
Gaffa Leshin,
and Tor, you know,
on the odd chair,
and I could wish it,
Kunt Bunchamok,
Motoshin,
the Gimmerch,
Leshin,
Fashion, Shin Shrap,
and her,
and know,
Haryar,
Kunt Bunch Sucker,
I'll call you two,
and Tatnava Bunches,
and Toros,
Fashion,
Martoshin,
and Rullis Estobacty,
and, you know,
Kunt Sulta Bunches,
Martoshet,
Toshit,
Kul Sproul,
the Gimmerch Pell,
the Gimmerch Sucker,
Broner, the Kutkarja,
Augusta Gigfos,
and Ursut Gaffa Lesbord,
like, Toshit,
Kul Sproul,
the Gwilma Janani,
Shaniyana Vagaskoil,
and the Fagerock,
the,
on the,
the Kalani Oigen,
the,
the,
the Rullis Bunchamok,
and Dolhar Larmur,
Durchme,
and know,
Kunt Bunch Shrap,
and the Heron Fresham,
so,
and,
Obergor Kroegas,
one, the Kutztatnavas Fresham.
What are the changes that you have seen
from when you started off playing
that young girl back,
and COVID?
Still very young girls still playing,
but what are the changes that you've seen
and how we look at women's sport and women's football?
Yeah, well, I think,
at the time, just before COVID,
I was,
I just joined my first girls team,
full girls team,
and I was maybe 15 years of age at that stage,
so,
there was no girls team in,
in Monham at that stage.
But now,
when I go home to my local club,
which is Monham Town,
there,
there are a number of girls teams from,
you know,
under it's up to,
under 14's, I think it is,
and I think that's brilliant to see,
because that was only,
that was only five years ago,
like, that I was there,
and there was no sign of any girls team happening,
so,
I think that's happening at,
at local level throughout the country,
especially in more rural areas,
which I think is,
is really, really important for girls
to be able to come through.
And I think,
for a time, Dublin was the only football and hats,
but in the country for young girls,
it was the same for me,
you know, when I first,
when I first was coming up,
I had to go to Dublin to play with a girl's team,
which is the only one around,
and it was obviously,
had the best facilities,
best quality,
you know, we're playing in the top league,
so,
I think that's probably the,
the biggest thing,
the biggest standard point for me is,
how many more girls
at Grassroot level are getting involved,
and are, you know,
making these teams happen,
or creating new teams,
and the more girls we have involved
in football, the better,
because, you know,
just the participation levels have been growing,
and that means we have,
you know, more girls coming up to the League of Ireland,
you know, will have a higher quality,
and then will have some more girls
enjoying the game,
which is, as I said,
the most important thing.
And how is it set with you
to be considered a role model now?
Oh, I see.
I still wouldn't consider myself a role model.
I think that's one thing that you never really
can come to terms with,
even like when I was,
even in the League of Ireland,
I think the attendance has been growing
the last few years,
and it's really special when,
you know, after a game,
those girls coming up to you
and asking you to sign their jersey,
or to take a photo with them,
or, you know,
a lot of them ask for your shin pads,
your boots, and sometimes you can't give it to them,
because, you know,
you just, you don't have the boots to be given away,
but, um,
no, it's really special that, um,
you know, at the League of Ireland level,
you can't be considered a role model,
and there is young girls looking up to you,
and, you know,
striving to be like,
I suppose, when they're older.
So,
I think we've seen that over here as well.
It's the same, you know,
the sort of having,
young girls having people to look up to,
and their local areas is really, really important.
So, yeah, it's,
to even be considered like that is really special,
and it's something that, um,
I'm proud of, you know,
and I hope that, you know,
we, my generation,
can leave women's football in the better place as well,
as I said, that, you know,
the likes of Stephanie and Onja,
left, you know, the League of Ireland in the better place,
I hope that my generation can do the same thing
for those young girls.
Well, you're certainly on the right path,
towards that scarlet,
Gromila, Mila, Mila, Maigas,
Asavella, Lorsling,
Gennari and Toilet, LaGarford.
Gromila, Maigas, Grana.
Yeah, that was interesting.
Mila Poehissar, Rachel Scalott,
Asavella,
Eglorch, Lom,
really enjoyed that chat with her,
and we sure so much success in her career
in Scotland,
and for many more years to come.
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