The Field

Aoife Bakonyi Byrne

N idyllic childhood in Ireland and two inspirational Sporting Dianas in my life, my mother as well as my maternal grandmother, left little room not to take up sport with a passion. I grew up with an older brother and younger sister on a small hobby farm in Ireland, surrounded by a menagerie of animals. My father had grown up next door on a stud farm that had been a deer park in the 19th century. Further

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