‘I didn’t want to like him. I’d a negative stereotype of footballers’ – Elaine Harris on finding love with Damien Duff and the challenges of Wag life
A footballer’s wife gets used to putting herself second, she says
Elaine Harris at Powerscourt Springs Yoga Studio in Enniskerry. Photo: Frank McGrath
Liadán Hynes
Elaine Harris entered her 40s burnt out. She was stressed to the extent that she found herself wanting to escape from her own life.
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