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# Sinead Burke

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# End of an era
Two-time All-Star calls time on Galway inter-county career after 14 years
Sinéad Burke had a glittering journey with the Tribe, though it ended on an unfortunate note.
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Mar 13th 2021, 3:30 PM
# same but different
'The best premarital course you can get,' revising wedding plans in lockdown and inter-county uncertainty
Both teachers who have had to rejig massive plans, Galway’s Sinéad Burke and Tipperary’s Samantha Lambert have been drawn in the same group for the 2020 All-Ireland championship.
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Jul 2nd 2020, 10:42 PM
# new faces
Nine-time All-Ireland winner and Galway star defender join Women's GPA executive
Down football captain Kate McKay and Clare camogie’s Chloe Morey are also coming on board.
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Jan 14th 2020, 8:30 PM
# Inspiration
'It's not my job to educate the world': Activist Sinead Burke speaks about bullying and her own experience
Burke has made waves in recent years catching the attention of Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
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Nov 9th 2019, 1:29 PM
# Influential
Irish disability activist Sinéad Burke makes the cut on BBC's top 100 women in the world
This year’s theme is based around what the future would look like ‘if it was driven by women’.
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Oct 16th 2019, 1:37 PM
# tribe tale
'I wasn't myself... I look back and say, 'God, what would have happened if I didn't go back?''
Football has given Sinead Burke so much. Ahead of her first outing as a player in Croke Park, the Galway stalwart looks back to when she nearly threw it all away.
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Aug 19th 2019, 8:17 PM
# british vogue
Meghan Markle puts Sinead Burke on the cover of Vogue's 'Forces for Change' September issue
The diversity advocate appears alongside 14 other women including Jacinda Ardern and Jane Fonda.
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Jul 29th 2019, 5:12 PM
# represent
Sinéad Burke is the first little person to attend the Met Gala
“It is surreal, inspiring and humbling to be gracing the [Met Gala's] infamous red carpet,” Burke wrote in Vogue.
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May 7th 2019, 9:27 PM
# Education
'I was furious and scared': Sinéad Burke on how being harassed on O'Connell Street inspired her new education campaign
Burke is a campaigner, advocate and academic, and last year became a contributing editor at fashion magazine Vogue UK.
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Apr 11th 2019, 9:55 PM
# Sinead Burke
Activist Sinéad Burke has been appointed to the Council of State
Sindy Joyce, the first Traveller in Ireland to graduate with a PhD, has also been appointed to the Council.
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Apr 4th 2019, 5:31 PM
# Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan spoke about the importance of showing menstruation in film in an interview with Sinéad Burke
“When I was younger, nobody around me would say the words ‘tampon’ or ‘period’.”
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Jan 11th 2019, 3:41 PM
# fashion awards
All the looks you might have missed from the celebs at the Fashion Awards 2018
Turning looks, stuntin’ pretty.
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Dec 11th 2018, 6:02 PM
# insta for all
This is why Sinead Burke and others are adding image descriptions to their Instagram posts
Let’s keep it accessible, people.
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Sep 25th 2018, 8:49 AM
# business time
The Ladies Football Show: The Galway heartbreak and Cork's defenders stepping up
Galway’s Sinead Burke and Cork’s Eimear Meaney join us for a review of the semi-finals.
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Aug 29th 2018, 2:52 PM
# Sinead Burke
Sinéad Burke is now a Contributing Editor at Vogue UK and Irish Twitter is chuffed
Sinéad was previously named one of Vogue UK’s 25 most influential women.
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Aug 1st 2018, 6:00 PM
# words of wisdom
People are sharing the words of wisdom they wish they could have told their 18-year-old selves
‘Buy shares in a company called Google.’
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May 22nd 2018, 8:00 AM
# Killin' It
Irish writer and activist Sinéad Burke met her Business of Fashion cover co-star Kim Kardashian last night
They’re both appearing on the cover of the influence issue.
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May 9th 2018, 1:46 PM
# duine beag
Irish activist Sinéad Burke is winning praise for her TED Talk on being a little person
She tells us what it’s like to navigate a world that’s not designed for someone who is 3’5″ tall.
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Jun 23rd 2017, 7:00 PM
# TED
Irish activist Sinéad Burke is winning praise for her powerful TED Talk on being a little person
She tells us what it’s like to navigate a world that’s not designed for someone who is 3’5″ tall.
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Jun 23rd 2017, 2:57 PM
# By-election
Joan Burton lashes 'online warriors' as Mairia Cahill becomes a Labour senator
The abuse victim has won a seat on the Seanad’s Industrial and Commercial Panel.
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Nov 13th 2015, 3:08 PM
# Seanad by-election
Mairia Cahill 'deeply regrets and is deeply sorry' for dissident involvement
The Labour Seanad candidate has broken her silence.
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Nov 12th 2015, 11:54 PM
# Seanad by-election
Mairia Cahill is refusing to talk about her past dissident links
The Labour Seanad candidate is coming under pressure over her refusal to debate.
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Nov 10th 2015, 5:31 PM
# Sinead Burke
Everything you need to know about the strangest election in Irish politics
A Seanad by-election is a strange creature that’s not without controversy.
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Oct 17th 2015, 8:15 AM