Aidan Walsh

Like most athletes, you want that Olympic medal and she's so close to it as well.

So for me, it's like I'm in a position now that I can do my best to help in any way that can actually just help her get across the line.

But at the same time, sport's hard.

And I'm like, you've been to the Olympics, you've been to the World Championships, you've done, you know, like there comes a time when you have to step away and you have to move into something else.

But she loves it.

She loves going away.

The girls on the Irish boxing team have a great team.

They have a good support network.

they get on really well and they really love it.

So I think as long as you love it and as long as you have a passion for something and you want to pursue it, I think that makes a difference.

But if she ever got to the point where it's like, I'm not enjoying it, I'm only doing it for the money or I'm only doing it for X, Y, or Z, then I would be saying, right, it's time to get out of it because...

I stayed in it maybe two or three years longer than I really should have, to be honest.

And I was doing it for that.

You're on the funding.

It's an easy lifestyle.

You're going to train and you don't have to work.

You could be working in an office.

So looking back, sometimes it takes courage just to say, you know what, enough's enough.

I think confidence is a massive one, which is important because if you have the belief that you can actually do so, it's not the be all and end all, but if you have the belief or you can turn on the belief in a short period of time when you're going to compete, I think you can definitely get a bit more out of yourself and you can last a bit longer.

Like say for instance in a fight, if you're going to do a fight with a bit of extra belief saying I can actually do this, surely it's going to help you, do you know?