#IWD2021 | Jordi Murphy: It’s important to shine a spotlight on women’s sport

As part of International Women’s Day, Ulster Rugby asked Jordi Murphy what role professional sportsmen can play in supporting and promoting the women’s game.

“From a professional sportsman’s point of view, we’re quite fortunate that we get a lot of media coverage ourselves. It’s important to be able to shine a spotlight from the position we’re in on Women’s sport which is growing year-on-year. It still needs a lot of support and that’s something that as professional sportspeople we can do to promote it . For example, promote it on social media and to watch it obviously and have an input on it when it’s on.

We should put a spotlight on it and take any opportunity we can to speak about it and get involved as much as possible.

“In Ireland, Women’s sport has gone from strength-to-strength in the last few years. The women have done incredible things on the rugby front; they’ve done incredibly well in the Six Nations and had some amazing wins in the World Cup, none more so than against New Zealand a few years ago.

“The more you can promote the Women’s game, the more it’s seen amongst younger women and girls, and the more they’ll get involved in sport. Sport is an incredible thing and if possible, every young person should be involved in it; girls are no different to boys in that regard in my eyes. It doesn’t take a lot to help shine a spotlight on Women’s sport.”

16th February 2021; Jordi Murphy during an Ulster Rugby squad pitch session held at Pirrie Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo by John Dickson/Dicksondigital

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