The Big Interview: Shane Healy - From an orphanage to greatest show on earth

The Cathal Dennehy Interview: From a very challenging childhood to the Olympic Games, and the pursuit of his long-lost mother, life has taken some strange twist and turns for Shane Healy. But the 50-year-old is now ready to write a new chapter.

Sat, 16 Feb, 2019 - 06:20

He finds a way. He has to. Doesn’t have any other choice. Never did.

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