25.1.1956-29.8.2016 - Legendary figure of Irish and Italian football.
Signed for Reims Feb 1974 on 3-year, £75-per-week contract. From Oblate Rd, Inchicore. Scored twice in Vards' 8-0 Leinster Ladies Soccer League win over Glen Abbey at Phoenix Park, 19.5.71 (a Wednesday night fixture). Scored twice more the following week (26.5.71) in Vards' 5-1 win at Fry Cadbury in Coolock. The previous (25.5.71) night she scored the third in a 3-1 win over Civil Defence in the Drumcondra Ladies Soccer Cup semi-final at Tolka Park.
Appeared for Ireland in creditable 0-0 with Holland at Dalyer, 29.4.90, when visiting home. Capped v NI 1973 as a Dublin All-Stars left half.
Played for Ireland 10.10.73 v France at the newly-refurbed Parc des Princes in a curtain-raiser for the male French "espoirs" (u23) team's 1-1 draw v Italy. Ireland lost 4-0 but she must have shown some touches to impress Reims boss Pierre Geoffroy, who also managed France.
Personal Stats supplied by Women's Soccer Archive
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