<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Paul Brady Performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Brady Performance]]></description><link>https://www.pbperformance.ie/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:00:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.pbperformance.ie/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Winning for Yourself First]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s a moment in every athlete’s career when the truth about motivation becomes   painfully clear.   For me, that moment of truth began on a main street in Kilkenny City, the day of my first All Ireland Senior Final. I was 20 years old - young, raw, talented, yes, but still carrying the   belief that winning was something I did for other people.   In the hours before that final, I walked through Kilkenny’s city centre completely locked into   my own world. I had tunnel vision; a young...]]></description><link>https://www.pbperformance.ie/post/winning-for-yourself-first</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ca850ee7de3cb00606cd77</guid><category><![CDATA[2026]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b58688_c7b760cd42324fa2a98e150531018ad1~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Brady</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under African Skies]]></title><description><![CDATA[For almost a decade, while my life was a head-spinning montage of departure gates,  tournament brackets, travel, competition, pressure- there was one place that slowed  everything down.  Each year I travelled to Zambia to visit my uncle - a Catholic priest who had chosen to spend  his entire adult life in Africa. He lived simply on the outskirts of the capital, Lusaka, in a  small house amongst the people he served. There were no perimeter walls separating him  from the community, no physical...]]></description><link>https://www.pbperformance.ie/post/under-african-skies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ca848aaa483e8f6803e41b</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/88fb1b_820b23b95e384aa7b218c1dcf10df8ee~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Brady</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Day Time Became Precious]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was twenty-one years old in the summer of 2001 - a young Irish athlete in New York on a   summer student visa, spending my days working, training and dreaming about what might be   possible in handball and life. I had just finished my undergraduate degree, and just like so   many young athletes, I imagined I had all the time in the world.   On the morning of September 11th, my uncle and I were taking the A train down toward   Fulton Street. He managed a bar and restaurant called John Street...]]></description><link>https://www.pbperformance.ie/post/the-day-time-became-precious</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ca841c20141e70489c33fe</guid><category><![CDATA[2025]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:09:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c527bc_f5ea2c2137d0407d8ff1676d7e2e1356~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_1000,h_898,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Brady</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is an Inner Decision]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was February, 2004. I was lying in bed in a hotel room in the Washington Athletic Club,   literally sleepless in Seattle. My body was dead tired and screaming out for rest but my brain   wouldn’t let me switch off.   In the corner of the room, beside my gear bag, was one of those over-sized cardboard cheques   and the figure printed on it - $50,000, the largest purse in handball history – would soon be   hitting my bank account. It was a life-changing sum for a 24-year-old not long out of...]]></description><link>https://www.pbperformance.ie/post/winning-is-an-inner-decision</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ca858c20141e70489c39ae</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c527bc_490e9cc270f349449ed9c0ef8e01b5ba~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_940,h_503,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Paul Brady</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>