Larry O'Gorman

And you could feel in the little meeting room that the players were, oh my God.

you know, his chance in life is gone and he might never ever play in Ireland again.

So, it sort of brings you back to reality to think, you know, how lucky we were to play in Ireland and how Sean missed out on it because of a broken bone and get back on the bus and we travelled probably for another five or six minutes and I think every player on the bus was thinking,

what Sean had just spoken about, the opportunity in life of playing an All-Ireland Final.

And it was still stuck in her head, you know.

And of course, Griffin again got us going again.

He got up on the bus and he started, come on lads, we're nearly there, we're not too far away.

We nearly have the Liam McCarthy in our hands.

Keep focused, keep working your mindset, make sure you stay right till we get to Croke Park.

And after that then, we'll speak different.

And naturally, when we got to Croke Park, we got talked out.

He got us listening to the crowd outside.

He said, soak it all in.

He said, because when you go out there, there's 70 or 80,000 people.

You know, he said, you won't... You've never witnessed this before.

So you're going to get a massive blast when you get out there.

So...

As I said, he had us all focused into what challenges were ahead of us.

Not only the challenge of playing Limerick on an All-Ireland final day, but the atmosphere, the parade, marching in the parade.

You know, he had everything done to a T. So all you had to do was go and deliver a performance on the day.