So what do you do when your career as a professional soccer player comes to an end?
That’s the dilemma Marie Curtin faced after a sports career with the Ireland Women’s National Team from 2000 to 2012 ended. Leading the defense, she was capped 45 times for the Republic Of Ireland.
Marie also played professionally in Norway (for a team called Fortuna) and in the U.S. winning a national championship with The Long Island Fury. Along the way, she also won a Junior All Ireland medal in 2010 with the Limerick Ladies Gaelic Football Team.
When men end their international sports careers, they often have plenty of opportunities and money, but women’s professional sport is not as developed. Marie struggled with what to do next.
So, she went back home to Limerick and joined forces with her dad, Sean, a retired dairy farmer and developed a new chocolate flavoured milk.
With the mantra ‘your body is a temple, treat it like one’ they named their new chocolate flavoured drink, Temple Dairy.
With only five ingredients and 94% low-fat milk from the family’s dairy farm, the business took off.
They now employ six people, are supplying over sixty shops and are partnered with the Munster Rugby Team as a post workout recovery drink: they have big plans for the future.
On a side note, do you think Sean Curtin has the look of Donald Trump? In his half-serious, half-joking way he has “Make Farming Great Again” on his red baseball cap. Maybe, as Hillary would have put it - Farming is ALREADY Great!
Listen to Brenda's Temple Dairy report for Countrywide here:
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Written by Brenda Donohue
