Larry O'Gorman

Yeah, it was very emotional.

But when we got back on the bus, I stayed in silence for about three or four minutes as the bus took off up that road.

it was sinking into the side of our head what it means to the people of Wexford, the people of old, whether it's the Battle of Vinegar Hill or the men of, you know, the 50s or 60s or whatever, the great warriors that played for Wexford.

He said, wouldn't it be something special to bring the Bob O'Keefe Cup back to the people of Wexford, the people that deserve it?

Not because of, you know,

Yeah, it was brilliant, to be quite honest.

A great atmosphere, I must say.

Wexford had a massive support, which was a big help.

We noticed this big time when you run out there and you have 30,000, 40,000 Wexford supporters screaming their head off.

We actually played with a smile on our face.

We enjoy it.

We knew we were a little bit up against the wall because of the success that Offaly had prior to that.

And we knew we were coming up against some of the greatest hurlers, the greatest of fields of Crowe Park that came from Offaly, you know, Brian Wheelhan, Michael Dylam, Dahi Regan, the Doolies, Kevin Keenan, I could name loads of them, John Troy.

They're wonderful hurlers.

They had more success in the bag in the previous years than we had.

We had no silverware, they had silverware.

So it was...

It was this thing that was going on inside our head.

Can we overturn them today?

And as I said, with the sports ecology that we had gone through, the build-up to the match, the atmosphere in the stadium and the way we hurled, I think, showed that we were capable of beating anyone on the day.