Brendan Clarke

No, I think I'd done three years in Galway.

My own young lad, he'll be 14 now in April, he's starting his own career in the League of Ireland, in the academy.

Is he a keeper?

He's not, I was very firm on that.

But no, look, I think it comes to a stage where you have to start looking at what he's doing in life and needing me around, kind of stuff like that.

He's at that funny age that teenagers get to, you know.

So I think three years in Galway was long enough.

Delighted.

I loved my time there.

And to be honest, I've never felt relief like I did at the final whistle down in Waterford.

No, we hadn't kind of slipped into the playoff place and we'd stayed in the division.

Really successful time there, promotion, cup semi-final and then staying in the division twice was fantastic.

Yeah, to be honest, I'm still shook by it, to be honest, still rattled.

I've had to go and speak to professionals about it.

We have all these...

all these facilities available to us and I'm obviously happy to avail them but in terms of the group it was a very strange feeling around the place

Yeah, I don't know.

I think in the end, towards the back end of the season, we kind of got back to what Ollie would have instilled in us, Ollie and John would have instilled in us, and kind of being horrible, being hard to beat, and then playing football when we could, but just being really dogged.

I like to think we did him proud in the last few weeks that we managed to stay up.

Yeah, listen, he was obviously a very, very clever manager in terms of using any