Valerie Mulcahy stands out among leaders, champions and visionaries

 AT 12.20pm today, Valerie Mulcahy will take to the podium.

The nerves will tremble, unlike game day in Croke Park. She was always one to accept the trepidation but this is a remit she's unfamiliar with.

As news broke of the 33-year-old's retirement earlier this week, Mulcahy's self-confessed pedantic trait was riffling through pages preparing her script for the Law Society of Ireland's Annual Conference.