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20th January 2015
05:04pm GMT

The WGPA chairwoman is Aoife Lane while the executive also features Anna Geary of Cork, Fiona McHale of Mayo, Kate Kelly of Wexford, Deirdre Murphy from Clare and Gemma Begley of Tyrone.
Mulcahy,who began playing senior inter-county at 17, says the whole basis of setting up the WGPA is to find out the issues that affect women playing Gaelic games
'We find out what issues are there and we go about seeking to improve them rather than just going home back in the car and giving out. We want to actually make a difference and try and make a change and use our voices to the best of our ability.'
Chairperson Aoife Lane says the association will host an AGM this time next year while she is also hopeful that there can be some kind of funding provided from either government or the Irish Sports Council,similar to what their male counterparts receive through the GPA,
'We talked about that,we're going to be reasonable here. A lot of work went in to getting those grants for men and I think they did a huge audit and economic value of men to sport. We don;t have that kind of data or information.we can't be foolish to demand stuff without having the proper argument.'
The GPA is of course now a part of the GAA itself after years of being outside of the tent as a separate independent body. Lane admits that the WGPA has a similar ambition to also come inside the fold to become a stronger unified group working for players.
'Absolutely, that's your ambition. We overlap so much that that is what you would like to achieve but it took the GPA ten years to do that. I really hope it doesn't take that long. I don't think it will take that long and we already got a show of support today but in time that would be an ambition of ours to be an official player's body.'
Mulcahy was among a number of speakers at the event this morning in Smock Alley:
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