This time last year Niamh Ní Chaoimh was the Rebels’ intermediate captain and hoping for no setbacks as her second consecutive All-Ireland final coincided with her taking up a new teaching job in Abu Dhabi. Not only did the Rebels lose for the second year in a row but it went to a replay, badly disrupting her travel plans. The Killeagh defender returned for championship action this summer and lines out in defence again with her best mate Sarah Harrington. “People say ‘you have to lose one to win one’, or, in our case ‘lose two to win one,” she quips. They’re hoping it will finally be ‘third time lucky’ this time against a Mourne side that they know well.

Source: Irish Examiner September 08, 2018 04:41 UTC