Ellen Keane

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302 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 2 Aug

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Brendan O'Connor · Ellen Keane: “I came back from the Paralympics and my motivation was in the bin” · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

And there is a moment in that song where you would have heard where it kind of goes a little bit silent and it goes, we are beautiful.

So in that moment, I had been wearing a dress that had my my arm was covered like the way I would have when I was a teenager and my arm was hidden and you couldn't see that I had one arm.

And I wanted to tell the story of hiding my arm.

And in that moment where it goes silent, I rip off the sleeve and it goes, we are beautiful.

So like, it was just a beautiful moment to be able to share that with my dance partner, Stephen Vincent, and to have an Irish singer like Lyra for me to be able to sing to her, dance to her song as well.

I wasn't too surprised by them.

I think the big thing for me when I asked that question was to make people think.

Because a lot of people don't even think about it.

Unless a person with a disability is maybe in your immediate family or is one of your friends, people literally don't think of people with a disability.

And they don't think of people with a disability as romantic creatures either.

It's a thing that I know because of Parasport, I have met a lot of people with disabilities and it's an insecurity that we all face.

And especially when I was younger growing up, because I didn't see any representation myself of people in relationships with disabilities, I just didn't think that people with disabilities were worthy of love.

And when you are in this era of technology and dating apps,

People hide.

People don't show that they have a disability.

I've been on the dating apps recently.

I don't think I came across one single person with a disability.

How do you find that experience of being on apps?

Oh God, it's the work of the devil.

I go through phases.

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