Pain no barrier to Waterford star Niamh Rockett

She’s only 25 and already has a decade-worth of inter-county service, but Niamh Rockett probably shouldn’t be playing camogie at all for Waterford, whose 2019 Littlewoods Ireland National League opener is an away trip to Wexford on Sunday.

At 16, already playing hockey, soccer, football and camogie with school, club, province and county, the talented St Annes forward was told that both her knees needed to be broken and re-aligned if she wanted to continue playing sport.