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Carry With Pride! Penrose was speaking at the launch of SuperValu's new limited edition Pride themed Bag for Life which is on sale this month in outlets nationwide. A prominent GAA star who publicly revealed his sexuality last month while still playing Gaelic football has urged other sports people to come out.

Meath manager Robbie Brennan disappointed following defeat 2 days ago. He sees that story repeating itself all the time, right across the country. I guess I'll just never know. Brian Fennell is a year-old Gaelic footballer who plays wing-back for his local team Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney in Wicklow.

Kevin Penrose, a player in Ireland’s Gaelic GAA senior football league, has detailed his journey as a gay athlete, his struggles with his orientation and his rebirth as a football player. Clearly there is a road to travel before more male players feel comfortable being their genuine selves in public.

But I think in the long-run, looking back, I had to go through all of that to come out the other side to where I'm at now, where I have a relatable story for all those other lads who are going through what I was going through back then. Latest News. He has been openly gay for a number of years and after too long dipping in and out of football activity, never quite settling long enough anywhere as he searched to find his true self, he has put three consecutive seasons with his club Aghyaran behind him and feels like he's finally thriving.

GAA star Kevin Penrose revealed he gets a lot of. He captained their Junior C team to the Wilson Buttle Cup last September. That coming out doesn't have to be as scary a prospect as it once was for him. I guess it's just one of those things you'll never know. Penrose and Meyler actually go back a long way.

Aghyaran footballer Kevin Penrose tells The GAA Social about the twists and turns of his Gaelic Games journey as a gay man. A young GAA player has told OTB Sports about his experiences of being an openly gay male in the sport. He is also beating the drum for dressing-rooms to be more inclusive environments, with less harmful language thrown around.

Penrose revealed that another male family member is also gay and 'moved away to Belfast, I guess just had a harder time' coming out. Meyler, as it happens, was a late developer with Tyrone teams but eventually enjoyed a lengthy inter-county career, which is still going, though it never happened for Penrose.

He too dreamed of success in red and white, the sort that his older brother, Martin, had experienced when winning All-Irelands with Tyrone in and But between the general pressures of life and that battle for his very identify, Penrose took off to see if life might be a little more straightforward elsewhere, pitching up for college in Liverpool initially and then spending several summers in the US.

All the while, his burgeoning football career suffered and Meyler raised that very issue at the Pride brunch, querying exactly how good he could have been if he was just a little more at ease with himself back in those days? A content creator in his day job, Penrose gets it that every little helps in terms of painting the picture publicly of a more reasonable and welcoming society.

When Penrose looked out at the audience, it was predominantly female faces that he saw staring back.