Saoirse Noonan speaks to media during a Republic of Ireland media day at FAI Headquarters in Abbotstown. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Saoirse Noonan has packed so much into her 25 years that it is little surprise her breezy outlook on life, and sport, mirrors the Irish derivation of her name. Freedom.
If ambition was measured in goals, her ongoing haul would represent the weightiest of arguments against an almost two-year international absence but the Cork woman remains sanguine about her lengthy exile.