From the pitch to the peaks

Sport is how I grew up — hurling, Gaelic football and soccer, training most evenings and picking up more knocks than I could count. A lifetime on the receiving end of sports injuries, long before I thought about treating them.

Coaching across three codes

I've coached underage and senior soccer with Bohemian FC and St Anthony's Youths, underage Gaelic football with Kilcullen GAA, and underage hurling with Glen Rovers and South Kildare Shamrocks. Coaching across three codes taught me something no course could: how differently bodies break down under different demands, and how much a proper rehab plan matters to a young player staying in the game.

Two surgeries, and a turning point

My own injury history is the whole reason this clinic exists. Two surgeries and more injuries than I can count, at times enough to derail training, competing, and ordinary days without pain. What changed things wasn't any single treatment — it was finally taking rehab seriously, as a discipline in its own right rather than something to rush through to get back out the door. That's what I bring into every session: not theory, but having lived both sides of it — the injury, and the long road back. And the long road back is as much mental as physical, which is a large part of why Summit does what it does.

Running further than I meant to

Running took over somewhere along the way. It started with road marathons — Dublin, Clonakilty, Longford, the Thoroughbred — and kept going further and higher: Madeira Island Ultra Trail, EcoTrail, the Swiss Alps 100, Kerry Way Ultra, and a string of IMRA races through the Wicklow Mountains. That kind of training teaches you — often the hard way — how to manage load and know the difference between pushing through and pushing too far.

Qualified to back it up

Alongside the lived experience, Summit is built on real qualifications: a Sports Injury Practitioner qualification covering injury assessment, sports massage, and rehabilitation; a qualification in sports psychology; specialist certification in ultrarunning coaching; and strength & conditioning training covering both individual athletes and team sports. The goal has always been the same — combine what I've learned the hard way as an athlete with proper, evidence-based training, rather than relying on one without the other.

Whoever you are, I've been there

A GAA player carrying a niggle into championship season, a runner building toward a first marathon, or deep into ultra training and trying to stay in one piece — I've been where you are, from both sides of the treatment table.

Beir Bua.