WATCH: Bryan Keane's family celebrate a once unlikely sight

In a garden marquee at the end of a cul-de-sac on Cork’s northside, a small crowd gathered to witness something that was once the improbable aspiration of an injured athlete.

Bryan Keane’s dreams of making it to the London Olympics in 2012 were dashed two years previously when a cycle in the French Pyrenees ended in what the triathlete has wryly described as ‘a kiss with a car’ and a shattered kneecap.

Nearly six years later his loved ones and friends sat inside the tent lined with pictures of the Leevale athlete and Tricolour bunting to celebrate the long rehabilitation that led to Rio and the realisation of a lifelong ambition.