Catch me if you can…… Gabrielle McDonald
We talk to Gabrielle McDonald, a former Triple British Drag Racing Champion and Ireland’s fastest woman Gabrielle McDonald is officially fast, in 2010 she won the Triple British Championship for Junior Drag Racing, which made her the first Irish person, the first girl and the first foreigner to win all three championships. Not content with Junior Drag Racing in October 2012, she began her Top Fuel licence and became the first person...
Women in the Outside Lane
Geraldine Herbert catches up with three very quick women and finds out the goals they are accelerating towards We live longer, achieve higher points in the leaving cert and, according to motor insurance companies, are less likely to have a serious accident. So why is our participation in motorsport almost on a par with female participation on stag nights? The predominance of men is the most visible example of a gender imbalance that...
