Won the title
unbelievable.
We all found it hard but we started off well and found our feet,. It was touch and go, I even scored a rasper of a point and this boosted me.
I couldn’t wait to hear the whistle to say it was over. We had won and we were on our way to the semi-final. We celebrated all evening. Our trainers decided to get us back on the bus to travel to Bagnelstown to support our boys Michael Dwyers in their match against Glenmore, Co. Kilkenny which they won and we done a guard of honour.
Our spirits were high and we headed back to our host town where we were greeted with lots of food and craic.
We went back home to the hsot families house and straight to bed for our big day tomorrow.
Day 3: Sunday, June 18
It was semi-final day and maybe even the finals. We got up early and were on our way to Fenagh.
Our first match was to start at 10am against Edendork, Co. Tyrone.
The sun was out in force again and all the supporters and us were burnt to bits.
We warmed up and got a really good team talk which boosted us. We were all on cloud nine going out.
We went out and it all started. Another tough game, nothing came easy – we had to fight hard for everything, but we came away on top winning this one.
I couldn’t believe it , we were in the final the All Ireland Féile Division 5 Shield final. It was hard to believe.
Our trainers settled us down to get ready for the final against Danesfort, Co. Kilkenny, which was to start at 1:30pm.
We had a lot of time before we were to go out and play our socks off, so we all went into our dressing rooms and sang our hearts out to all the tunes.
We had a great laugh, time went by quickly and soon enough it was time for the game to begin.
A piper played while we were jogging out to play our final, it was a memory that will last forever.
I spotted all the supporters, I couldn’t believe how many had showed up to cheer us on.
The whistle blew, the game was on, it was tough going from the get-go. It was close scores all the way, we just couldn’t find the goals and then the whistle blew.
The game was over – we were level. We had to play another five long minutes of extra-time each side. We got a good team eating and we were roiled up.
We worked so hard we weren’t going to let it go easy.
It started again, we all pushed hard and we were rewarded in the last minutes of the second half.
We scored a goal and just to seal the deal we finished with a point.
Then I heard it, “the whistle” – it was over.
We had won the All-Ireland Féile Division 5 Shield final 2017. We were champions: “ole ole ole”.
We jumped around, threw water everywhere, we just couldn’t believe all our nights traning had paid off.
We gathered ourselves and headed for our presentation – we got our All-Ireland medals and headed back to the dressing room for celebrations which carried on all the way home on the bus.
We all met up at The Green in Kiltegan where a piper was there to parade us down our village where all the supporters applauded us as we went.
We had a lot of speeches and presented our coaches with gifts to show how much we appreciated their hard work.
The celebrations carried on with food in Germaines that evening.
The weekend was one to remember and will last in my memories for a lifetime.