Bríd Stack: It’s sobering to think being paralysed or not came down to a matter of millimetres

In the first of her dispatches from Australia, Cork’s Sydney Giant reflects on a tumultuous first month Down Under

GIANT STEPS: Bríd Stack in her new club colours with husband Cárthach, and their son, Cárthach Óg, before her shocking injury.

When the AFLW season began on Thursday evening, Alicia Parker and Katherine Smith invited the whole GWS Giants squad over to their apartment in Adelaide to watch the Collingwood-Carlton game.

My husband Cárthach had some work to do for our business at home, Mycore Supplements, so I brought young Cárthach Óg over with me. It was a bustling, busy, and really warm atmosphere but, with the small man in the middle of me trying to nibble at the cheeseboard, watch the game and chat to the girls, Cárthach Óg was wrecked by half-time. So I decided to walk across the road and bring him back to the apartment on Glenelg beach.