Eimear Ryan: It's 18 months since my last training session. It's the small things you notice...

It’s when you find yourself groaning while pulling on socks in the morning that you realise you have no choice: you will have to become a gym person.

BRIGHTER FUTURE: GAA President, Larry McCarthy, Camogie Association President, Hilda Breslin, Chairperson of the Steering Group on Integration, Mary McAleese and Mícheál Naughton, LGFA President. Pic: Morgan Treacy, Inpho

You have always outsourced your personal fitness to the GAA. It was something that you never had to think about, that was always simply taken care of. 

It was built into the routine that three times a week, you would go run around a field after a ball with a few dozen other women.