Tommy Conlon: Sport needs more girls, women and ladies because it`s all about participation
(Independent.ie Rugby)

In rugby they are women and in the GAA they are ladies. When talking about their own team-mates, they will often refer to them as `the girls`. Thus proving once again the lonesome wisdom of that country `n` western ballad which told us that `There`s girls and there`s women and there`s ladies`. (Not forgetting its other, equally rueful, anthropological insight: `There`s yeses and nos and there`s maybes.`)