Sunday 25th October found me leaning against a wall on George’s Quay at 6:00 am with an epee under my arm waiting for the first bus to Galway. Three hours later I was having breakfast in the weak autumn sunshine of Galway’s Eyre Square and checking the directions to the sports centre where the...
My first competitive outing fencing epee was at the Irish Intermediates on 4 October 2009. This was not my first time competing at fencing, I had fenced foil at the South of Ireland Open in September and at the Intermediates the previous day, but it was my first time competing at epee. The official...