Annalise Murphy: ‘I didn’t believe I could do it’

Pride. After the fall. Back in 2012, Annalise Murphy cut a very different figure to the one before us now.

Indeed there’s a photo from that homecoming in Dublin Airport, of her sitting beside John Joe Nevin and Katie Taylor who are sharing a joke as the medals hanging from their necks glint. It’s that which caught the Rathfarnham woman’s attention as she peered in at what she could have had.

No, at what she should have had. That’s a torturous feeling that has followed her around for the past four years.