Pat O'Leary: 'I appreciate the Paralympic movement. It's just sport'

Patrick O'Leary, Irish para-canoer willl look to better his 6th-place finish from Rio. Picture: Diarmuid Greene 

As a scientist and a university professor Pat O’Leary has an analytical mind and a way with words.

He surprised himself by making the KL3 kayak final in Rio - a flatwater sprint over 200m – and finishing sixth.