Edel Coffey: One thing all successful people have in common is failure

"Losing is part of playing. It’s the bet we take with anything in life, not just sports. Often we have to go through loss to get to winning; through failure to get to success."

Katie Taylor after her undisputed super lightweight championship fight with Chantelle Cameron at the 3Arena in Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Like most of the country, I think, I was deeply invested in Katie Taylor’s homecoming boxing match at the 3Arena in Dublin last week. 

And, like most of the country, I was deeply disappointed for her that she didn’t win. It was the first defeat in her professional career and probably deeply affecting not only for that reason, but also because of the emotional resonance of it being a homecoming match on her home turf.