FAI Women’s Cup final: Lucy McCartan chasing titles on two fronts

Sporting all-rounder Lucy McCartan faces two national finals and her birthday over the next 12 days but any success will be tinged with sadness from her Covid-19 experience.

Dealing with the virus herself was worrying enough but the restrictive effects the trainee doctor saw first-hand on elderly patients while working in a local Mullingar nursing home lasts longer.