Shape I'm In: 'With all injuries, you’re managing them for the rest of your career' 

Team Ireland hockey player Róisín Upton on recovering from her double hip surgery and the drive to win 

Róisín Upton at the launch of Circle K's 'Here for Ireland' campaign at the Catholic Institute Athletic Club in Limerick. Picture:  Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

TEAM Ireland hockey player Róisín Upton is philosophical about the high cost of playing at international level. Even if it means undergoing double hip surgery.

“I’ve carried niggles since but I have been playing away,” she says of the 2016 procedure, carried out during her final year at the University of Connecticut.