This looks class.
Dublin lost the All-Ireland Ladies football final in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The feeling was akin to being dumped for three years in a row in September for player Sinead Finnegan.
When they lost that first final in 2014, it must have cut deep. It’s a horrible feeling, falling at the final hurdle. But it also must have been a source of inspiration for them for 2015. They went through the emptiness of that losing dressing room. They endured the heartbreak, and they sure as hell went into 2015 with the aim of avenging the hurt.
A year on and they lost the final again. 2016; they came back for more, it was their third time lucky; they went down again. Imagine the pain. Just imagine the dressing room after that third final. The girls must have been sick.
A lesser team would have given up, a lesser team would have said, ‘Well f*ck this, why am I putting myself through this pain?’
They came back in 2017. They came back starving in 2017.
Driven on by three years of agony, they weren’t taking no for an answer. They had learned and they were hell-bent. 2017 was their year, finally, finally this bunch of players got their hands on the Brendan Martin Cup. They did it in a manner that luck couldn’t prevent them from doing so.
They coasted to glory.
It’s lucky for us, then, that Loosehorse were behind the scenes in the Dublin ladies camp for the whole year, at training camps, trips and on game-day.
They’ve produced a documentary called ‘Blues Sisters’ which will air on RTÉ One at 9.35pm on Monday night.
That looks intense, it looks revealing and insightful. It looks like something that GAA fans won’t want to miss.
