From school to the pool: The Limerick teenage prodigy aiming for Paris glory

Roisín Ní Ríain

Cliona Foley

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.