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MANY OF US stress over the difficulty of fitting our training around work and life demands, but Paula Fitzpatrick\u2019s challenge to get that balance right is at another level. Image: Dan Sheridan\/INPHO MANY OF US stress over the difficulty of fitting our training around work and life demands, but Paula Fitzpatrick\u2019s challenge to get that balance right is at another level. As a member of Ireland\u2019s international set-up, the Tallaght native essentially trains as a professional rugby player, despite the ongoing status of women\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs a member of Ireland\u2019s international set-up, the Tallaght native essentially trains as a professional rugby player, despite the ongoing status of women\u2019s rugby as an amateur sport.
\nOn top of that, Fitzpatrick is one half of STRIVE Sport Science, an ever-growing applied sports science testing and research company based out of Dublin City University\u2019s [DCU] impressive campus in Glasnevin………….. see the full story on :- http:\/\/www.thescore.ie\/paula-fitzpatrick-strive-sports-science-1873071-Jan2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"