Making waves: 50-plus Dymphna is now a Masters' Champion swimmer

For about 20 years, this swimmer didn’t venture into a pool, but after her children were raised, she went back and is now making big waves, says Margaret Jennings

“TO be honest, if you told me at age 16 I would be swimming competitively at 56, I would have just laughed at you; it would have been just comical to think I would go back and be able to swim like I am doing,” says Dublin woman Dymphna Morris.

Having swum competitively internationally and been an Irish record holder, as a teenager, she “hardly put a toe in a pool” for two decades, as she was busy rearing her two children and working fulltime.