Ireland's first national women's athletic championships

My name is Frances Mansfield and I have been involved with sport and with women participating in sport since I was a teenager.

The medals you see in the photos are from the very first national women’s athletic championships to ever take place in Ireland under the BLE. They took place in 1967 in a farmer’s field in Tipperary, while the men’s championships took place at a stadium in Santry. They ar…