SOMETIMES THE BEST sports stories occur in neighbourhood gyms rather than under floodflights and in front of cameras.
Bill Healy is a 67-year-old Dubliner who’s lifted his way to multiple world titles and records.
Training in his ‘second home’ the Hercules club in the capital, he says power lifting has helped him turn his life around.
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'If it wasn't for the Hercules club, I probably wouldn't be alive today'
SOMETIMES THE BEST sports stories occur in neighbourhood gyms rather than under floodflights and in front of cameras.
Bill Healy is a 67-year-old Dubliner who’s lifted his way to multiple world titles and records.
Training in his ‘second home’ the Hercules club in the capital, he says power lifting has helped him turn his life around.
Mark Coughlan / Vimeo
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