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Players’ statement: ‘What we experienced should provide lessons for the future and we hope for the FAI, and all other sporting bodies’

Clockwise from top left: Then and now portraits of Olivia O’Toole, Lynn Winters, Bridget McDonald, Trisha Bourke, an unnamed player, Lisa Curran, Jackie McCarthy-O’Brien and Katie Liston

Mark Tighe and Marie Crowe

A group representing female footballers who have spoken out about alleged unwanted or inappropriate sexual advances from named FAI coaches in the 1990s say they want their “pain to be the next generation’s gain”.

In a statement issued in relation to today’s joint investigation by RTÉ Investigates and the Sunday Independent, the former players said they hope that “what we experienced should provide lessons for the future and we hope for the FAI, and all other sporting bodies”.