KATE Kerr-Horan is one of Ireland’s top para dressage riders. A lifetime of dedication to riding and horsemanship at her home in Broomfield, Tinahely, Co Wicklow has seen her selected to represent Ireland numerous times.

At age three, she was found unconscious in the fields at her family’s home, where they think she had been kicked by a horse. She was placed in an induced coma for 12 days and needed a tracheostomy with pieces of her ribs inserted into her vocal chords to help her breath until she was 11 years old.