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Bronze medal winners in the Women's Four — Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh, and Emily Hegarty — with An Taoiseach Micheál Martin and the Mayor of the County of Cork Cllr Gillian Coughlan at an official homecoming for the Irish Olympic Rowing Team at the National Rowing Centre, Farran, Co Cork. Picture: Brian Lougheed

As events at Croke Park confirmed yesterday afternoon, and as they do every September, the journey to realising a dream lived through sport satisfies an elite, but disappoints far more — until the disappointed, but determined, find a way to join the elite. 

A much more intimate event this weekend honoured that never-quit process.