Offaly's Ellee McEvoy on the need to develop new training facilities

‘I remember training and we had that one light. We were trying to do a drill underneath the stand. We could barely see each other and balls were going everywhere but that is all we had. We had to just put up with it’

STANDARDS: Ellee McEvoy of Offaly during the Lidl Ladies Football National League Division 4 Final match between Limerick and Offaly at St Brendan's Park in Birr, Offaly. Photo by Ben McShane/Sportsfile

The current whipped up, their rafts collided with logs on the river bank and they began to take on water, six of the group went under.

Ellee McEvoy spotted two who were being taken away by Bow River in Canada and stuck out her hand to save them before everyone climbed up on one of the logs. The ice-cold temperatures of the glacier water only increased the sense of dread but they had found safety.