Aidan Walsh

I've seen athletes who have won

absolutely everything and they're so so unhappy and you know yourselves there's people about loads of money or so so it's what you do I think it's your purpose in life and what's your values I always go back to that with athletes what's your values what do you value in life I love kindness I love a bit of softness do you know what I mean I love that sort of what do you value what's your values especially when things get hard what do you value what do you stick to what type of person are you if you know that I don't think you can go too far wrong

And I agree, and I massive on relationships within sport, particularly the coach-active relationships.

But if you can build good relationships, and that goes the same for parents and the individual and parents and the coach, if you can build good relationships, a lot of those issues, they can be resolved.

If there's communication there, if there's good education there around it, which I think in Ireland now it's really, really improved on.

Sport Ireland have a number of things that they do which is really, really good.

But I think a lot of it all comes down to relationships.

If you have relationships within sports, whether it be teams or relationships with parents or kids, relationships allow people to flourish.

When the relationship's positive and healthy, people flourish.

And I'm massive on that.

Again, but it's one of those areas where people are like, oh, no, you need more.

But relationships across the board are massive.

And you said it yourself.

It's about making memories.

It's about creating relationships with people.

And those are the things that you remember in sport.

So for me, I was really, really lucky, like fortunate enough.

One of the psychologists at the time, Kevin McManaman, who played for Dublin, RGA.

He was our sports psychologist at the time.

And he gave me a book just right before the Olympics.