Dara Smith-Naughton
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I don't know, I probably haven't felt like this in sports since the honorary handball.
I've had moments, personally, like Monaghan have lost all Ireland's semi-finals by a point, but as a collective, the Irish rugby team have lost painfully in World Cup quarter-finals.
But this feels different because of the nature of the game.
If Spielberg or Scorsese had to script last night in the form of heartbreak,
I don't think last night could have been any more heartbreaking.
To take a 2-0 lead, to give it away so stupidly with the penalty, and then for them to score relatively late on, again with a free kick that shouldn't have been given away.
And then for it to go to penalties, and also for us to feel like we almost had it won on penalties.
After three penalties each, we're ahead.
And from that point on, the wheels just come off.
So I don't think I've...
I don't think I felt like this.
Like last night I said to Aoife at home, I don't know if I can go in tomorrow.
I don't know if I can talk about this.
I think we all know that feeling this morning.
But she said to me, you have a professional duty to be like a therapist.
I think we all need to go through this.