'I still have plenty to give': Eamon Montgomery wants to make his mark on European Championships

Montgomery is preparing for a new challenge at the European Championships in Zagreb that starts on Wednesday

RAISING THE BAR: Eamon Montgomery during the Gymnastics Ireland content gathering day at the Sport Ireland National Gymnastics Training Centre in Dublin. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Eamon Montgomery’s gymnastics career began with a wrong turn.

He remembers being a hyperactive child who was already doing flips on the trampoline in the back garden but, one fateful day when he was six years old, it wasn't the just-opened gym in Lisburn that his parents were planning to bring him to, it was the local swimming pool.