Standing back to see is the hardest thing sometimes. Geographical scientists talk about the idea of landscape amnesia, the inability to picture what your homeplace looked like when you were a kid, especially if you've lived there all your life. The changes to your environment are so gradual, so imperceptible over time, that you have no real concept of where you started.To follow Irish sportswomen around the globe these days is to experience a little of that. It's such a normal thing now to expect success, to hear news of this world title or that gold medal or another other tournament win and not be one bit surprised by any of it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2022/12/16/irish-sportswomen-have-changed-the-landscape-messing-it-up-would-be-an-unforgivable-waste/

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