From thinking she was a ‘liability’ to representing Ireland at the World Cup, Wicklow’s Shauna McGann-Hanlon is helping change perceptions of disability in football after a chance social media connection led to international success
Shauna McGann-Hanlon (right) and partner Kate Hempenstall with the bronze medal McGann-Hanlon won at the Cerebral Palsy World Cup.
Some of the barriers cerebral palsy has placed in front of Shauna McGann-Hanlon are easily spotted. Things the rest of us can take as given, she can’t.
“It affects my right leg and my right arm,” the Rathdrum woman tells The Wicklow People and The Bray People. “The motor movements on that side would not be great.