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4th August 2022
12:52pm BST

"The only thing I can remember is back at the start of the year, Cairbre brought me into a dressing room back in Rathkeale and put me up on the Watt Bike," Gillane says in an interview with Diarmuid Lyng on The GAA Hour Show.
"He gave me torture anyway for about half an hour and I ended up on the floor, barely able to breathe," he adds with a laugh."Yeah, he set his stall out from the start of the year, this is how it's going to go, and to be fair to him, I'd say this year was the fittest I've ever been, that's all credit to Cairbre and how he is. He's very approachable and easy to get along with. "I couldn't speak highly enough of him. He's a big hit now in the group, he's really settled in, everyone loves him. That hard-work, both on and off the pitch, is the hallmark of this Limerick team and Gillane doesn't see them letting up any time soon. "Some people might think we're weird in the sense that we actually enjoy the hard work and that that's actually where we get the enjoyment from. But I suppose we just know that once the hard work is put in, it's going to benefit us on the field and everything else will follow. "Over the last few years, everything that we've won to date, that's down to one simple thing and that's hard work and we're going to continue to work hard when we get back training. "What works best for us (on the field) is keeping it simple and controlling what you can control. When you step onto the field, the only thing you can control is how hard you work. You can't control it 'oh I'm going to score 0-2 or 0-3,' it's just how hard you can work..." https://twitter.com/GAA__JOE/status/1544623810057568256 And on the field, Gillane was irresistible this year ending up as the championship's top scorer. He scored points from all angles, goals in between and won his battles left, right and centre - with typical modesty, he gives a lot of the credit to his team-mates. "You don't want to be a one trick pony. To be fair, my own mindset going into a match is just to make myself available every time a half back or midfielder gets the ball, and whatever way it comes in then, I just deal with it. What's benefiting me really, in my opinion, is that I have the best in the business hitting me in the ball, the likes of Declan Hannon and Darragh O'Donovan - you could watch them play hurling all day, lovely hurlers, lovely hands, lovely ball-in, so I just try to be on the end of that.
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