Every step of the way.
Sport is crazy, isn’t it? It’ll make you do things for it that the sane person wouldn’t even dream of. There will be dizzying highs, there will be crushing lows.
It’ll drive you mad, it’ll be the most addictive drug in the world. It’ll lure you in, it’ll knock you back down, but you’ll keep on coming back, and at the end of the day, it’s the journey that you will remember.
Though you curse the effort it takes to spend six hours of a winter evening on a round trip to training, you’re doing it for the cause, you’re doing it for the love of it.
You’re in it to win it, and those brilliant victorious days make it all the sweeter, but still even if you don’t win, even you come up just short, like Mayo and Sarah Rowe did on Sunday, you still won’t have any regrets.
You wouldn’t dream of undoing your commitment to the cause.
Sarah Rowe and Aishling Moloney have so much in common. Mayo ladies star Rowe is a final year P.E and Biology student in DCU, Moloney is a second year in the same course.
The pair reside in the same College Park apartment in the north Dublin campus. They are both exuberant forwards upon whose shoulders much of the hopes of their counties rest.
Imagine the build-up, the anticipation in that Glasnevin apartment last week. The two girls were preparing for All-Ireland senior finals, senior and intermediate respectively, knowing that they could both reach the promised land by the weekend.
Both went out and gave their all on the hallowed turf. Moloney and Tipperary were up first and they nailed it on the big day, the culmination of a truly swashbuckling year for the classy Cahir star.
For Rowe, it was the other end of the spectrum. Heartbreak. Despair. Mayo were well beaten by Dublin and it just wasn’t to be their day.
One of the first people onto console her on the Croke Park pitch was her housemate, and her friend Moloney, who had to pose as a photographer in order to gain access.
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Rowe was crestfallen, Moloney on cloud nine, but at the end of the day, it was all the one, friendship and appreciation.
“My fav human on earth surface,” replied Rowe under the Instagram post.
They’ll both be back again.
