O’Donovan Rossa star captained Cork to Munster and All-Ireland minor ladies football championship success this July

Nathalie captained Ireland at the Deaf Futsal World Cup and led her team to an historic semi final appearance against Brazil

Talented East Cork jockey won her fifth consecutive champion crown in May

Experienced midfielder was immense throughout the league and starred in the final against Galway

Despite her young age, she is already an Olympian and recently won Ireland its first-ever gold medal at the European Throwing Cup

Young star captured Cork and Munster titles to enhance her reputation as one of the best young boxers in Munster

Kilbree’s Caoimhe Murphy recently won the Purcell Cup All-Ireland final with Mary I and a rugby title with UL

Echo Women in Sport guest speaker on her own journey in basketball and ladies football and supporting the next generation

Marathon simmer Olga O’Sullivan wanted to use sport to honour memory of late husband Colm

New inductee has given more than 50 years to the sport she loves and her club Kerry Pike

Ballineen Bullet had a magnificent 2024 reaching new heights with Ireland and her own personal performances

Marie Keating was inducted into the Hall of Fame while Olga O'Sullivan collected the Outstanding Achievement award

Meet the talented athletes recognised for their excellence across 2024

Family and West Cork roots led to O'Mahony to become a leading light for the Rebels and Skibbereen

Rylane BC ace has pushed on again in 2024

St Finbarr's Aoife O'Neill was picked by the judges for helping her club land a first county since 2006

Recently, Sinead O’Connor won her third The Echo Women's Mini Marathon in five years, winning all three races she entered in that time.

Cork and Killeagh dynamo was picked as The Echo Women in Sport winner for August

O'Sullivan led the way for Ireland in their historic Euro qualifier win over France, scoring the opening goal in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Fresh off her 4x400 women’s relay silver medal at this year’s European Championships in Rome, Healy also retained her 200m national title

Townend captured the May award thanks to her first Grade One win on Redemption and the retaining of her status as the best amateur jockey in the country

Joy Sampson was honoured for her brilliant displays with Harlequins in April

Homan's player of the match performance in the final led her to being chosen as the Echo Women In Sport Award winner for March

Masters swimmer picked up a gold and two bronze medals in Doha

Brilliant young basketballer came up with big scores as the northside club landed their first cup

17-year-old Christ King student was picked for the Echo Women In Sport Outstanding Achievement award

St Val's club stalwart has made an incredible contribution on home turf and for Cork

The Echo team discuss the monthly and overall recipients at the 17th Echo Women in Sport awards, plus hear from inspirational guest speaker Joanne O'Riordan

Rylane BC sensation on what it took to turn underage talent into two national titles

Guest speaker at last week's Echo Women in Sport Awards delighted with the leaps made but knows that more can be done

Rylane BC dynamo was selected as the 17th Echo Sportswoman of the Year, while Marian Crowley and Aideen Mullins were also hailed for their achievements at The Metropole Hotel

Prestigious Women in Sport awards has crowned 16 previous overall winners, as well as honouring Outstanding Achievements and selecting members of the Hall of Fame

After shining at Croke Park in December, Roche helped her club complete a ladies football treble

On December 23rd Welch will break new ground once again when she takes charge of Fulham against Burnley.

Rylane Boxing Club ace collected a senior and elite double recently in what has been a great year for Cork boxing

Classy forward delivered in the semi-final and county final as Sarsfields were crowned Cork champions again

And this isn’t their first Olympic qualification either, they also qualified for Tokyo 2020, and can't wait to show their true colours at Paris 2024

O'Connor's hat-trick and overall performance in Cork's winning All-Ireland final sees her win the Echo Women in Sport award for August

Born a year and three months after her mother secured a medal at the Olympics in Australia, her own star is now most certainly on the ascendancy

Her weekly training schedule comprises of a two hour pool session, seven days a week from 5.30am, with an additional two hour pool session on Wednesday afternoons. 

Gifted Cork ladies footballers was in deadly form as the Rebels landed the Munster title

EIMEAR HUTCHINSON, a mum to four girls, and also an athletics coach asks how to keep girls interested in sports as they age

Rory Noonan interviews the Berrings athlete's stunning haul at the World Transplant Games

New period-friendly kit could be the gateway to better accessibility for women in sport, writes Prudence Wade.

Award-winning basketballer reflects on a brilliant Super League season with John Coughlan 

Cork native and Irish international talks to Ger McCarthy about her great start to the year as she's honoured by the Echo

Rory Noonan catches up with the MTU Cork captain and Cork ace who was picked by the Echo for her brilliance in the third level competition 

Saoirse McCarthy, Deirbhile Nic a Bháird and Claire O'Sullivan are the recipients for the first three months of 2023 

16th Women in Sport recipient was honoured at Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Former Irish underage international picked camogie over soccer because of her pure love of the small-ball game