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Mary Purcell: A pioneering multi-distance athlete for whom anything seemed possible
This story is part of a series, The Greatest Irish Olympic Stories Never Told, which will run every Saturday in The Irish Times up to the beginning of the 2024 Olympic Games, on Friday, July 26th By the time Mary Purcell established herself as the single …