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The Danske Bank Premiership is Back: Northern Ireland 2019 Season Preview
She Kicks, issue 53, April 2019 pp.40–41
The Danske Bank Women’s Premiership returns for a fourth season under the NI Football League after a 2018 campaign players called the most competitive ever, one that boasted seventeen full internationals and produced the first live televised broadcast of a domestic women’s fixture in Northern Ireland. Linfield took a third consecutive title by twelve points behind Kirsty McGuinness’s goals, captain Sarah Venney’s leadership and a teenage generation in Lauren Perry, Megan Bell and Louise McDaniel. Irish Cup winners Glentoran appoint Diarmuid O’Carroll and recruit Shannon Grattan and Vicky Carleton, Sion Swifts sign Jamaica’s World Cup goalkeeper Nicole McClure, Cliftonville’s Billie Simpson scored the goal from her own half that went viral worldwide, and Derry City drop the Ladies suffix in the name of equality.