Spike O’Sullivan: We’re blessed to have St Kellie Harrington, our patron saint of grace and glory
STAR SHINING: Kellie Harrington with her gold medal after defeating Wenlu Yang of Team People's Republic of China in their women's 60kg final bout at Court Philippe-Chatrier in Roland Garros Stadium. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
The word from the RTÉ number crunchers is that 1.7million people across the country tuned in to see Kellie Harrington bless us with another magical Olympic night. Well, if it wasn’t for my daughter, that number would have been 1,699,999.
I’d got home from a two-week volunteering trip to Kenya on Tuesday night and fell on to the couch, absolutely shagged. But Ashley wasn’t going to let my jetlag be an excuse for missing a piece of history. And bless her for shaking me because waking up and watching Kellie do what she did, the way she did it, and celebrate it the way she did will live with me forever. A where-were-you moment that you know the answer to in an instant.
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