The calm before the storm: Why Eve McMahon isn’t afraid of what comes next
2025 was, you might say, a decent year for Eve McMahon. Aged just 21, the Howth sailor rounded out the year with a slew of major medals, a stint ranked as the world’s number one ranked sailor (an historic first for an Irish sailor), and was named as Ireland’s ‘Rising Star’ by the Olympic Federation of Ireland just before Christmas.‘Excuse the wet hair,’ she says as she settles herself in her chair to talk to The Currency. McMahon joins our video call straight from a day of gym-and-bike strength & conditioning training in Lanzarote. Sailors spend as much time on…
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