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29th January 2016
12:21pm GMT

Posted by Killimor Camogie on Monday, 30 November 2015
How important was the fact that just one girl in the squad was with Galway?
"Ann Marie Starr was the only girl in with county and then she got injured in August and, as captain, then her injury was great motivation for the girls to push on and hope that she would be fit if we made it back to a county final."
How has camogie changed in the four years since you won in Croke Park?
"I think it has probably got very physical. There is a number of very good sides in Galway - Mullagh and Ardrahan - and we're all at the same level. Girls now have to be in great shape, the days of just going out and having a cut at a game are over. You have to be in shape or you won't get the result."
What was The Toughest sacrifice for the club this season?
"I think when Emer Haverty and Anne Marie came in after injury for the county quarter-final, it was a massive boost. Both are county players and to lose them early in the championship was very tough but when they got back in, it was a huge lift in the dressing room."
Describe the effort they put in to get back for the latter stages of the club championship?
"Emer suffered a bad injury and she missed five months' training with us. But she did her own work, she was on the bike, she was swimming and did a power of work to get back. Ann-Marie helped her with a serious arm injury, and she's a pin in her arm now, it's pure dedication that has them back."
What have you learned from all the near misses that could make the difference this Sunday?
"Well we have learned, painfully, that work-rate all over the pitch is crucial. If every player doesn't work then you're not going to get the result. We had 17 hooks and blocks in the first half of the county final against Ardrahan, even if conditions were poor. That's what we need to bring forward into Sunday and to take into the game against Loughgiel who are a very very good team."
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