No one said it would be easy living the life of a full-time athlete and a full-time student and all while living the dream, and Louise Shanahan has already found an impressively successful balance. Now things should get that bit easier.
We’re in the crowded Er Burchetto café in Ranelagh on Tuesday evening, where Shanahan is one of the 22 young Irish athletes to benefit from the first tranche of funding made available via The Jerry Kiernan Foundation. Set up late last year to honour the passion and insight which Kiernan, who died in January 2021, always brought to the sport, the fund of €30,000 to begin with is all about easing in some small way the needs of the young athlete – between t …
- April 7, 2022
