From school to the pool: The Limerick teenage prodigy aiming for Paris glory
ONE of Ireland’s best medal hopes at this year’s Paralympic Games says making the jump from school to university has been a help, not a hindrance and not just because it gives her an extra hour in the bed every morning.
Limerick’s 18-year-old para-swimming world champion Roisín Ní Ríain is now a first-year scholarship student at the University of Limerick, studying to be a science teacher while clocking up 20 hours a-week in the pool.