'Weather the storm': Paralympic athletes share the advice they’d give their younger selves

Ahead of the Paralympic Games on August 24, we ask three competitors about their chosen sport and the advice they'd like to give their younger selves

Orla Comerford at the World Para Athletics European Championships. Picture: Luc Percival.

Archer Kerrie Leonard has been especially busy this month. Not only is the 30 year old in the midst of training for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo when we speak, but she was also on a break from her full-time marketing job.

"I’ll be working right up until the day before I leave,” she nonchalantly says from her home office in Kulmullen, Co Meath. “I just balance my training around my workday."