Emma Doolan has star power

THE Special Olympics has made the world of a difference to Emma Doolan. Before joining in 2002, she was reluctant to put herself forward.

“I was shy but now I’m not,” says the 22-year-old, who lives in Muckross, Killarney.

Her success as an athlete has given her focus and the will to win. In the National Games in Belfast in 2006, she won gold in gymnastics and in Limerick in 2010, she won silver for the shot putt.