The training they do is not for faint hearted. Hours and hours - you’d need to be mentally tough as fuck.
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Usually in athletics clubs you try everything and chase medals. Then you find what you are best at. I tried race walking for a few months as a kid 
It’s hell on your shins. I can still remember the burn
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I can’t think of much worse in competitive sport. It’s a strange event though. Like butterfly in swimming. Let’s figure out how to make travelling from A to B as difficult and time consuming as possible.
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Stephanie Meadow is off in the fourth round of the gold soon. She’s in joint 10th place but only three shots off a medal. She’s also from NI. Do we hate her like Rory or is she an alright sort?
Has she nice boobs? That’ll be the decider.
Outstanding today from Ellen Keane. She seems like she has a bit about her too
For once RTE got something right. They covered both Ellen and Kelly in that Olympics preview program that had 3 episodes. Great insight into the prep and challenges both faced with Covid. I think Ellen actually struggled to qualify initially because they changed the criteria for the event which brought in a whole tranche of more able bodied folks. Comes across as a pure alright sort. Brilliant achievement today obviously.
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You do know that those guys are walking much faster than you would ever be able to run, like even as a young fella. Most olympic events are silly when you break them down to their basic parts
Ah that’s a lovely post win interview with Ellen Keane, what a lovely lady. A phenomenal individual.
RTÉ News leads with a bomb in Afghanistan when we win a gold at the the Olympics.
Lovely scenes in the family home in Clontarf.
Paralympics my man
Lotta love there
You can only admire her gumption
If mcgregor can sell piss, why can’t she?
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I was in a bar in California recently. They had one Irish whiskey on the shelves. Proper Twelve. I was subsequently in a shop and the shop assistants fascination with my T-shirt drew me into conversation. Oh you’re from Ireland. I am. Do you know Conor McGregor (twenty years ago it used to be Do you know Bono).
I doubt if Pippa has that level of recognition
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Quadruple distilled, the vodka is reduced to 38% alcohol using water from the Boyne. The brand is offering three flavours in its first phase: classic, vanilla and pink berries.
So I’m guessing, they buy in 100% vodka from Russia (no mention of where the vodka comes from), water it down with water from the Boyne, mix in some fruit flavours, which basically makes it a gin, and away we go.
What was the tshirt you were wearing?