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Published 12:27 15 Oct 2018 BST
Updated 14:23 15 Oct 2018 BST
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She was invited down to a medal presentation by a Cork club who had won the girls under-14 championship and the boys under-12 competition in the year 2017.
Buckley presented the medals to the girls team without fuss, only to be told by the lad who invited her that she wasn't wanted to present the lads with their medals.
"I went along and when I got down there on the night, the lad who invited me took me aside and said ‘Look we’re really sorry but the GAA team actually don’t want you to present the boys with the medals’." "They got some local guy to do it. He was absolutely mortified. He could hardly look at me, he was really embarrassed," she said. "That's just the mindset of whoever was organising that, we're looking for a shift in that. It's a rare thing but that was 2017, it wasn't 1986."With a mindset like that, how the hell are young lads supposed to grow up with respect for the women's sport and how are young women supposed to grow up with aims and aspirations of making it? The aim of the 20 x 20 event is to increase the levels of respect that are held for women's sport, and to instigate a shift in the mentality from this kind of thing.
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