Laura Murphy: If you’re not enjoying it, you shouldn’t be doing it

Kilkenny's Murphy is an advertisement for perseverance, for maintaining a belief that continuing to work assiduously on self-improvement will pay dividends

PERSEVERANCE: Kilkenny’s Laura Murphy in action against Galway in last year's All-Ireland semi-final. Pic: INPHO/James Crombie

Is maol gualainn gan bhráthair.

So goes the seanfhocal that espouses the strengthening of a collective cause by the closeness of the relationships.