The ‘Bandon Bullet’ has been one of the key figures in driving up the standard of Irish women’s sprinting over the past decade. She was fourth in a European Junior 100m final in 2013, was twice a 200m finalist at World Student Games, and made the European Semi-finals in 2018, before qualifying for her first Olympics in 2020 at both 200m and 400m. She was part of the mixed 4x400m who made history by making an Olympic final in Tokyo, and also part of the women’s 4x400m team who were sixth in the Europeans in 2022, and went on to win silver at this Summer’s Europeans in Rome. She opted out of the World Championships last summer and was later diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease but has made a strong return to form in 2024 and won her 17th Irish senior title last month.