Fiona Doyle: ‘We are not going for fun. This is what you’ve trained your whole life for’
2016 is Olympic year and so Irish swimming, along with the raft of other sports whose successes and failures over the past three years went largely ignored by the Irish public, will move centre stage as the countdown to Rio gathers pace.
Doyle is the sole Irish swimmer presently qualified for next summer’s Games and while she expects to be joined at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on the second week of August by at least one or two more green caps, hers will be the name each household is mildly familiar with.
