Kellie Harrington: There’s greatness in everybody but it's about how we bring that greatness out

'The greatest advice that I have ever been given or that I could give to someone is basically, to just be yourself and do not change for anybody – unless you’re a bad person and you have to change'

Sat, 02 Jul, 2022 - 02:00

Maeve Lee

I was born in Dublin 1, and I have three brothers, Christopher, Aaron and Joel and obviously my parents, Yvonne and Christy. I’m the second eldest in the family. Christopher is older than me and then Aaron is under me and then Joel. I went to St Vincent’s Girls National School on North William Street, it’s just around the corner from our house.

What has been my proudest achievement? Qualifying for the Olympic games after coming off the back of an injury and going through a global pandemic. It was really, really tough so I am really proud that I managed to qualify for the games because it was a tough time to qualify for many people and not just myself, but for many people and many of the team [Team Ireland] as well. A lot of hard work went into it. Obviously, we were in the middle of a pandemic, and we did not know whether we were coming or going. We did not know whether things were going to happen, or they weren’t happening or if the Olympics was going ahead or not going ahead, so we had a lot of challenges.