Ellie pictured here in an eventing competition
Rebecca ‘Keeffe
Contributing Writer
Name: Ellie Carty
Course: TSM Spanish & Modern Irish
Sport: Equestrian – Eventing
Sport you’d play if you weren’t involved in you one: Surfing
Favourite pump-up song: Skrillex – Bangarang
Biggest inspiration: “The athletes who truly make it…are mentally some of the toughest people in the world. No one is born with that kind of toughness, and it doesn’t come overnight. You must develop it, cultivate it, cherish it” – Marti Liquori
Favourite pre-competition meal: Coffee & porridge with raisins
Last thing you read: Phaedo by Plato
Three things you’d bring with you to a desert island: My pillow, my dog & food!
Best piece of advice you’ve ever gotten/given: The right decision is usually the hardest one.
Tea or coffee: Coffee
If you were a superhero what super power would you have: Hugely unoriginal, but flight
How would you spend your last day on Earth: With my family or on my horse in the Wicklow mountains
Favourite ice-cream: Hazelnut
Who would play you in a movie of your life: Jessica Biel
Favourite drink: Non-alcoholic – chocolate milk, Alcoholic – gin & tonic
Would you prefer to be attacked by a bear or a swarm of bees: Oh definitely a bear
What fictional character would you be: Gromit from Wallace & Gromit!
