Ellen Keane in Covid isolation 12 days out from World Championships

Paralympic gold medallist, Ellen Keane (Swimming) pictured today following her announcement as a Sports Ambassador for Dublin City Council alongside Olympic gold medallist Kellie Harrington (Boxing). The partnership sees Dublin City Council (DCC) teaming up with the two local sports stars to promote the benefits of sport and physical activity in Dublin, while highlighting the importance of a wide and varied sporting infrastructure for a healthy and happy city. You can find out more about DCC’s sport and recreation programmes, services and facilities here: https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/sports-and-leisure https://www.dcswphub.ie ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

For two years she had dodged it, but in the end Covid-19 came calling. There’s no good time to be sentenced to a week of isolation with a respiratory disease, but for Paralympic champion Ellen Keane, this sure is an inconvenient one.

It’s now just 12 days until the Para Swimming World Championships get under way in Madeira, Portugal, and Keane is heading into her seventh day of confinement, hoping her antigen tests start coming up negative so she can get back in the pool.