‘It’s still sickening thinking about it’ – retired Ireland striker Julie-Ann Russell laments Euros agony

Galway star has switched attention to other sports since she retired from international football but is ‘forever grateful’ for her second chance

Julie-Ann Russell with her daughter Rosie after the Uefa Women's Euro 2025 Play-off loss to Wales in Dublin last December. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

It took Julie-Ann Russell’s departure from football for her to acquire the skill of penalty-taking in another sport.

This time last year Russell was a key player in Ireland’s effort to qualify for last summer’s Uefa European Women’s Championship in Switzerland. Today she will line out at centre-forward for her home club Moycullen in the Galway senior B county final in Gaelic football

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