Stephanie Zambra was on a stage in a crowded room, the nation’s media there to chronicle Irish football's biggest split since Saipan.
There, alongside her, were the remaining members of the Irish women’s national team - each of them risking their international futures.
The year was 2017, the stage was Dublin’s Liberty Hall, the issue was the conditions our national women’s team had to endure under John Delaney’s FAI, and the threat was blunt: to go on strike.