Ciara Mageean

Sharon maybe collected them from the house or did I deliver them to Dublin myself?

I think Sharon collected them.

Arrived into the sports dock and all of that happened pretty quickly on the way back.

And

Yeah, he said there's an indication of increased irritation in the bowel.

It's something like a CAL score.

I wouldn't go into too much detail for fear that I'd make a mistake in the references.

And I'm very, very fortunate that the Irish Institute are so proactive and look after us so well.

It's something that I've been so grateful for throughout my career and kudos to them and their medical team.

The doc there, Frank.

It was like, I'm just going to refer you to one of our specialists in Vincents.

And the specialist rang me, arranged a sigmoidoscopy, which is a scope of your lower bowel.

And yeah, I'll never forget that day on the 20th of May.

going in to have what I thought would just be a routine little scope and I wouldn't find out results for a bit after.

But instead, on that very day, I found out that I had cancer.

And rather strangely, I had arranged to do a training session the next day.

I had an interview with one of the Irish journalists, Ian, and I was like, should I cancel all this?

But I think autopilot care nearly kicked in.

Do you know what?

I...