Shauna Bannon remembers the Irish Revolution of 2014, when Conor McGregor famously declared that the Irish weren’t here to take part, but to take over. Nearly 11 years later, Tallaght’s Bannon is confident that another revolution is under way.
“You know what I really love about MMA in Ireland at the moment is that there's a lot more girls doing it and there's a lot more girls doing it at a higher level,” she said. “When I first started off, I struggled so bad to get fights, and there was nobody around. I had to go to the UK and I had to travel a good bit because there was no one in Ireland.