Kilcummin manager delighted poor season ended on a high

KILCUMMIN team manager Donal Dwyer is one of many super troupers in the GAA. Very much an unsung hero, he emerged last of all from the dressing rooms carrying a bagful of footballs and a container of water bottles.

It’s not been a successful season for the East Kerry side, but Dwyer has stuck with it right to the end, ensuring the club’s senior status for a nineteenth season, something which he was obviously delighted with.

“Huge,” was the word that summed up his feelings. “We consider ourselves a small club, we don’t have big numbers, so to do that is incredible really. Yeah, we haven’t had the best of years, we are gone down to Division Two in the League, a couple of games didn’t go our way. O’Donoghue Cup, we are out of that, Glenflesk took us apart, we never showed up, so to finish today, finish on a high it gives us a great boost for next year,” Dwyer said of the season at large and this season saving victory.

“It was definitely hard earned in the end, and we knew that was going to be the case against Milltown. There’s never anything between us, you can never be up enough against them, and there at the end they came back at us, putting pressure on us. We needed the extra few points.

“We had a great start, it was those couple of scores kept us in the game, and in fairness to our boys we kept plugging away, kept making better use of the ball than we did last week against Glenflesk. We were more up for the game today, more focussed, everybody turned up which was good for us.”