Larry O'Gorman

And as soon as we went out, I think we carried it from the training to the crow park out onto the field of play.

We did play, we played quite well.

Yes, going through the game, you still think we were waiting for Kilkenny to make some kind of comeback and beat us.

And they weren't too far away from in the end.

But for some reason, in the last 10 or 15 minutes, I said, this is our day.

Things seem to be working better now than they had in the past.

So we were sort of...

Playing well, we were working well, but yet you were looking over your shoulder, looking up at the scoreboard to say, God, hurry on time, run out quick.

And naturally, you don't believe you've beaten Kilkenny until you're in the dressing room, you know, and everyone is hooking each other.

So eventually when we did beat them, there was fist bumps.

There was no major celebration.

We were back in, into the dressing room.

Bang.

That's one step done, lads.

Now we've Dublin in the next round.

I played okay, yeah.

I was quite happy enough.

You know, you'd always be stats in the dressing room.

You know, Liam Griffin would always have stats up about...

hooking and blocking and catching and striking and you know teamwork and stuff like that so I always I always slag Liam I get on very well with him and I always said Liam I don't know why you had me in fourth I should be number one I kept on saying this to him you know as a slagging he said it's great to be driven by yourself Larry you know keep driving yourself if the rest of them could be as confident as you which they would be but I was the type of person I like to speak about it as in fun and he said you keep that attitude he says that'll get you a long way when you go to play