14th annual Echo Women in Sport awards celebrate Leeside’s finest

Ireland's Lizzie Lee is a former Echo Women in Sport winner. Picture: INPHO/Morgan Treacy
Others who grabbed headlines last year include Maxine O’Sullivan, who rode It Came to Pass to a shock victory at the Cheltenham Festival, camogie aces Orla Cronin and Amy O’Connor, rugby internationals Leah Lyons and Anna Caplice, Cork City rising star Éabha O’Mahony and athlete Louise Shanahan.

“Sanita Puspure is a role model in Cork and beyond for her consistency as a rower. She has delivered year after year and hopefully, the Olympics will offer her another chance to show her undoubted class on the water.”

Jessica Scannell
Briege Corkery
Olive Loughnane
Derval O’Rourke
Juliet Murphy
Orla Barry
Christina Desmond
Denise O’Sullivan
Lizzie Lee
Rena Buckley
Saoirse Noonan
Sanita Puspure
Christina Desmond
Sanita Puspure