Olympic Success Is Different Level - Grainne Walsh

Grainne Walsh remembers being among a handful of people to meet Katie Taylor in Tullamore shortly before the London Olympics.

A midlands boxer is looking to blaze her own trail all the way to Paris next year.

Grainne Walsh remembers being among a handful of people to meet Katie Taylor in Tullamore shortly before the London Olympics.

A short time later there were thousands to welcome home a gold medal hero.

Walsh claimed the National Championship at 66kg in a stunning victory over World Champion Amy Broadhurst.

The Offaly boxer recalls how Taylor was an unrecognised legend of the sport until London 2012:

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