Daniel Wiffen

And I guess it becomes the sport, well, it's the only sport you can kind of do because of the time it takes out of your life.

I think like, to be honest, a lot of my friends are all swimmers.

So everybody was kind of doing the same thing.

So I didn't really know anything else other than that.

In school, sure, like everybody was playing GAA.

I went to St.

Pat's in Armagh, so main Armagh GAA recruiting school.

And it was like, everybody does that.

Me and Nathan were the only two swimmers there.

And yeah, so that was kind of the difference.

Like people didn't really understand what we were doing and they didn't really know swimming was even kind of a big sport.

Yeah.

You know, they just focus on Irish sports.

But in terms of my friend group, we all swam at the same time.

We all did the same sessions.

So it became like a kind of a social thing for me.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't be going on a night out or anything like that, like when I was in high school or going out to do anything else other than swimming.

Swimming was the social event for me.

I'd be chatting to my friends on poolside throughout the session.