World and Olympic champion, grand marshall of the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin – the soon to be married Kellie Harrington is taking everything with a wad of shamrock.
Harrington tends not to over inflate issues, even her important date with partner Mandy Loughlin. But she is finding it difficult to suppress the rip current of childhood memories of St Patrick’s Day in Dublin city’s inner city, her streets.
The World Championships in Istanbul in May, she knows are out there and she will arrive as the Tokyo gold medallist. But boxing being what it is, suffering from governance ataxia at national and international level, she has learned to chill.
“It’s kind of all last minute thing with boxing, you get told at the last minute really what you’re doing or where you’re going,” she says. “The real thing for any boxer is to always be ready.”
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- March 11, 2022
