Clodagh Finn: Honouring the Irish woman who won five US Open tennis titles

Mabel Cahill: sports star and writer who was born in Ballyragget in Co Kilkenny.

It is heartrending to think that Ireland’s most successful tennis player, five-time US Open tennis champion Mabel Esmonde Cahill, spent her final days in a workhouse and was buried in an unmarked grave. At least now, in the place where she spent her earliest days, that unrivalled achievement is being remembered.

When Kilkenny Tennis Club opens its doors on Monday morning, it will be celebrating more than an easing of lockdown restrictions.