Conor Whelan

Like, what does, what's normal here for after a game?

Like, because...

this is only the third time ever being part of a game of goal like you know and it just happens to be to be the biggest the biggest hurdle and fixture like so yeah it was just unique I suppose really just unique how it all happened and yeah there's definitely elements that you think the stars aligned like I think the week before we played Cork which was the All-Ireland quarter final like we were playing a training game down in Thurles and my girlfriend is from Gart and

I was up at her house and whatever happened, I forgot my hurl.

And when I came out to the car in the morning, I had no hurl there and I had no boots either.

And we were playing a training game down in Turles because we were playing there the week after against Cork.

And I was like, Jesus, this is a fairly big training game here.

And

So one of my best friends lives in Gart and the bus was going from Gart, it was going from the Lady Gregory.

So I went up to the hotel, the Lady Gregory, and I had about 20 minutes, I'd say.

So he lives in the town of Gart.

So I ran down, it's about a 10 minute run, I'd say.

I ran down to his house and his house, like I'd have been there over the years, like, so it'd be kind of very informal, like, so just opened in the door and there was no one around.

And I went into his back kitchen where I knew he had his hurdles and

I pulled out like a couple of different hurls and he had this brand new Clancy hurl, but it was an inch short.

It was 32.

And I usually use a 33.

So I just took that hurl and I brought it.

And then Tex Callan, who's the kit man with Galway, he gave me a grip for the hurl.

And I was literally gripping it up in the dressing room before I went out to play the training game.