What does it mean to be an sporting icon?Are you only an icon for the time you are part of the distractions from life as your preform?Or do you remain an icon until the day you die, and if memorable enough, past that too?Are our sporting icons dispensable? Do we just continually replace one with another until such time as we no longer require their existence?What is the cost of that on the individual?The person who took their worth from that icon status.It is the life of a Kilkenny woman which answers these questions for us.This is her story.Today’s music was written, produced and preformed by Ryhan O’HalloranThe story was scripted and researched by Oran.If you enjoyed this story and want to help us support this podcast, you can buy us a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/wetheirish or leave us a review on your podcast appWe, the Irish is an Ireland Loves production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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