A landmark week for football as Jake Daniels has become the UK's first active male professional footballer to come out as gay. The Blackpool player is the first man in the professional game to do so publicly since Justin Fashanu in 1990. John McGouran Community Officer with Shelbourne FC, Eoin Sheahan, presenter of OTBAM and John Coary Chair of Dublin Devils FC, joined Andrea to discuss the significance of this moment and what impact this could have on the sporting community. 

Listen and subscribe to Lunchtime Live on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.

Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.

You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.