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Wolfe Tones held its first Mothers and Others ladies football blitz on Friday night, hosting teams representing Fergus Rovers, Cratloe and Limerick club St Patrick’s. Mothers and Others offers women a chance to play football, in a non-competitive environment. “It was the first event that we hosted, we had been to one ourselves previously in Mungret,” said spokesperson Áine Nic Cormaic. “We had ourselves and three other clubs, there were over 60 girls playing and there were six games. “The whole ethos of Mothers and Others is that there are no scores kept, otherwise it would take away the fun and you would lose players. Wolfe Tones will be going to the national Mothers and Others blitz, being played in Dublin on September 7. “There will be 130 teams at that, there would have been a request to enter from about 500 teams so it was just the look of the draw,” said Áine. “We wanted to have a few …
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