Larry O'Gorman

We lost some Leinster finals as well in that period of time.

So there were signs of something was good within the team or the county, you know, but it was just about getting it right.

Was there someone out there who was able to come in, put everything right?

And of course, when you have the likes of George O'Connor and Martin Storey and

And Billy Burnham, these guys, you know, they were great leaders.

And they were the type of guys that were... The main men at the time when I joined, and Liam Dunne and Gerard Cush and Sean Flood, when we joined in with these guys, you could see that there was a lot of experience in her.

And these lads were very, very passionate.

You know, if you look back at Tom Dempsey, Martin Storey, Liam Dunne, myself, Gerard Cush, we got beaten in 85 in the minor All-Ireland Final.

86, under-21 All-Ireland Final.

86, 87 in the All-Ireland semi-final by Galway so we had a little bit of success in terms of winning underage, minor and under 21 titles but

Looking back at the senior back then, you know, you'd often feel as if, jeez, Westford will never win anything.

You know, we don't seem to be able to get up to where Kilkenny is or where Cork was or Galway or Tipperary or something like that.

You'd always dream as a young boy, maybe someday we'll get there.

We'll get to Crowe Park and play on the All-Ireland final day.

We were lucky to be in Leinster because we got most runouts in Crowe Park, whether it was Dublin, Leash or Kilkenny.

But to be there on the All-Ireland final day was something that we could never see really.

Yeah, look, there were some good managers I must say.

Christy Ho was a great guy as well, a great hurling man and a very proud Wexford man as well.

So he would have played hurling for Wexford.

But at the time, I don't know whether it was the style of hurling or was it that mental thing in your head to say...