The weather was as hard as it gets with Storm Isha raging around Croke Park and in the communities of the teams but still they served up two of the most dramatic games of this or any other season at the AIB GAA All Ireland Club Finals yesterday.
St Thomas’s of Galway and Watty Graham’s Glen of Derry emerged as victors in the hurling and the football, both by the minimum of margins and both having come from behind.
“I thought we were done and buried,” said Glen Captain and Player of the Match Conor Glass after the game.
“Our shot selection all day was terrible, but we just got on with it – short term memory, forget about those misses, and focus on what we can control. What we could control was the next kickout, the next attack, that sort of way.
“It shows the character this team has. Here, we are All-Ireland champions, it is a pretty good feeling.”
Glen had lost last season’s final in controversial circumstances and this felt like the fates had leant a hand to rebalance the past.
Éanna Burke, one of four brothers on the pitch for St Thomas’s with a fifth as the manager, scored the winning point in the hurling and listening to his interview with Darren Frehill after the game was a joy to behold.
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