While the whole of Ireland was glued to Kellie Harrington’s Olympic endeavours in Tokyo, her partner Mandy Loughlin was doing everything she could to keep herself away from the telly – such was the intensity of her nerves.
While she didn’t doubt Kellie for a moment, the former boxer says watching the fights live proved almost impossible for her.
Instead, she did her best to distract herself while she awaited the news to trickle down. ‘I never doubted Kellie for a minute – never,’ Mandy told Ryan Tubridy on RTÉ Radio One before explaining that her way of coping with the intensity of the fights was to put her energy into something else. ‘Usually I’d take the dogs out for a walk or I try and just be normal and do normal things and try put it
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