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‘I couldn’t give enough credit to Mary Wheatley … she was incredible’

Connie Conway and Mary Wheatley

The early days of Laois ladies football were a lot different to what we know now. Back in the early 1970s, there was very little choice for girls who wanted to play team sport. But after playing illegally with a team comprised of the staff of St Fintan’s Hospital in Portlaoise, Connie Conway, from the…