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19th September 2015
02:18pm BST
"These lads would be getting very excited above in Killarney and if I went up I’d be listening to this kip o’ the reel from all of them and it would tire me out. I couldn’t be listening to all this joking around. I needed a bit of time out. So I used to go for a few cones with Kieran McCarthy down in Cahirsiveen.
"The idea of going up and down for two hours didn’t really appeal to me and in fairness, a lot of it would have been chit-chat and talking and I felt I wanted to hone down on getting my kicking right and things like that. I was probably doing a bit of fine-tuning. Or else I was gone for a 99 ."
We doubt that a 99 would feature highly in any players' pre-match meals but it didn't seem to do Fitzgerlad any harm.
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