Larry O'Gorman

hopefully what could turn out to be a good day for you in terms of you know maybe getting a score or two or maybe doing something vital for the team in terms of getting a hook or a block or saving a pelty or something like that all the positive things were coming out in you and you know back in the car then and went up to my home place went up to see mum and dad had a cup of tea and an old biscuit and just gave them a hug each and I said hopefully on Monday or Tuesday I'll bring the Lee McCarthy up here for you so very emotional I must say

Yeah, absolutely.

And I remember going along the quay actually in Wexford.

I just drove down along the quay and outside of all the pubs along the quay front in Wexford, there was people out dancing and jumping around the place, all the Wexford jerseys.

I said, oh my God, I wonder what it's going to be like tomorrow or tomorrow night or Monday, you know, when we win or if we win.

This is madness.

I just thought it was just so, it was so relaxing as well, you know, to see people really enjoying themselves and what it meant to them people that they, they seemed to be happy on what we had achieved just to get there.

But inside the camp,

We just wanted one more game, one more success to make us All-Ireland champions and, you know, roll back to 68 and before that, you know, to be local heroes again or heroes of old, as they say.

So, you know, it was just lovely and just to go back home and

There was no stress.

I just got back into bed and just got up and I was just so excited when I woke up in the morning.

I was like a young kid waiting to open a Christmas present.

I was just so forward, looking forward to it.

There was no nerves, no tension, you know.

And I said, look, let's go enjoy this last journey.

Yeah, I'd say most of them would have been nice and calm about it because we met half of them in Furry Carrick Hotel.

The rest of them would have met in Escorti, Adrian Fellin and crew, Paul Codd and these lads.

And then Gorry was our last stop.

But the closer we got to Gorry now, I could not believe the crowd on the streets and in the cars heading towards Craw Park.