Paralympic swimmer Ellen Keane is sitting on a stool at the front of the room for the mental health charity Aware’s Resilience Lunch in Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club in Dublin 6. There is a gold and a bronze medal in Keane’s lap. The gold was won in Tokyo 2021, the culmination of a career. But it’s the bronze that she keeps coming back to.  “I’ve always really struggled with this medal,” Keane tells the room, turning the bronze over in her hands. “I never felt like I deserved it.” Keane first competed at the Paralympic Games in 2008, aged just 13.…

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