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A top tech job or going to Australia – how Irish sports stars coped with career-ending injuries

It can be a very challenging process for sportspeople having to start all over again – here some explain how they did it

Dave McSharry, former professional rugby player and founder of cookie business Hot Chip. Picture: Bryan Meade

Sport is, by its nature, cruel. There will always be far more losers than winners. There will always be countless more journeymen and women than superstars. Sport is an industry that’s built and relies on failure.

It’s different, however, when that failure isn’t on your own terms. When it’s not another player or team that defeats you, but your own body. What do you do after something that has been all you know is just ...