My Childhood with Mona McSharry: 'I loved swimming from the get go — now I'm in unchartered waters'

"I didn’t do a lot of the typical things teenagers do. I didn’t go out much or go to festivals...Having such a focus on swimming made me feel on the outskirts of things.”
Mona McSharry in 2013 at the the Irish Age Group Championships and Summer Open

Mona McSharry in 2013 at the the Irish Age Group Championships and Summer Open

Mona McSharry is in what she calls “uncharted waters”. 

The 26-year-old competitive swimmer from Grange in Sligo learned to swim at age five and says she “loved it from the get-go”.

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