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Wed 07 Jul 2008Keeping eyes on the stars but feet firmly on the ground
As she prepares for her third Olympics, the 20-kilometre walker tells Mark Roddenof her interests and inspirations outside athletics
I GREW UP in a place called Kilconieron, close to Loughrea in Galway. It would have been a rural part but the one thing they did have there was camogie and I played it from when I was eight to about 14.
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