Conor Whelan

Yeah, six points up at half-time.

Yeah, I think it's lucky to be honest.

I don't think you've probably processed how big it was, I suppose.

I think I can remember the following day afterwards getting up and I was so young that I was walking around the street.

I actually had my hurl with me the following morning after an hour and just walking down the street with a hurl and a ball.

It's like...

you're just that young that wasn't really drinking that much or wasn't, I suppose, you didn't really realise the gravity of it.

And I think that's one of the things of being so young is that you just go and you play like you're not concerned with the occasion or there's no weight of history or anything like that.

Sometimes that, I suppose, when you get older, you realise that these chances don't come around again as much.

I think my first

four years i played in three all irelands and like haven't played in one since like so i think at the time you just probably take it for granted a little bit as well yeah um but yeah look what it was special memories and special opportunity to get and look at ultimately you didn't get across the line but um i think those experiences probably made 2017 that that little bit more special as well

I did, definitely, yeah.

Definitely, like, I think from the moment I came in, like, the lads were very good to me.

Like, I suppose...

A lot of them would have hurled with my first cousin, Niall, that passed away.

So, like, there was that connection there.

And Davey Burke, like, would have very much taken me in under his wing.

And I did feel very much part of it.

I suppose it's just, you're just not used to, like, so that was, that game was my, say, my third game ever with Galway.

Like, so you're not even used to, like, what do lads even do after a game?