New sporty website is all about girl power

A NEW website devoted to women’s sports has been launched by two young Southsiders.

Editor Lisa Haskins (24) from Clondalkin and Assistant Editor Kelly McGill (22) from Inchicore, hit the publish button to launch their new website

‘Women’s Sports Journal’ (WSJ) recently.

The new site is decimated to delivering top news stories, features, fixtures and everything sports-related to the people of Ireland, with the emphasis on the ladies.

The aim is for WSJ to increase readership within wom­en’s sports, making it unique among most sporting websites available online.

The girls said that by publishing WSJ as a website they will hopefully build up a readership for women’s sport news and in the long run create interest within the print industry.

Supporting WSJ is Tallaght native and former Miss Bikini Ireland, Lisa Hogan (21), who is also a professional ballroom dancer.

Lisa will be updating the site weekly with a diary based on the life of an athlete.

“I’m a very competitive person,” she said. “I’m always competing but mainly with myself. Competition is what gives dance today such high standard and so I’m happy to be supporting a site that promotes female athletes in Ireland because they deserve not only more media attention but also more national support and funding.

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The site will also include the latest fixtures from football to golf so readers will only be a click away from the action.

The site already has a running Twitter feed to keep everyone up to date with sports news and includes daily retweets from high profile athletes in the sporting industry.

The creator and editor of the site, Lisa Haskins, said she was optimistic for the site.

“I would like to see 2014 be the year when our female athletes get the recognition they deserve and get more support in our country,” she said.

“In a time of recession I think it only makes sense to focus on the good things our country has to offer.

“Women such as Katie Taylor need more media coverage here and I hope our website will become a platform for them and set out some changes for female athletes.”