After the coffee morning in work, met a mate in town waiting for my dad to arrive into Dublin. When Niamh and him arrived into town, we all went for dinner in Bobo's on Dame st, before bringing the pub crawl in Dandelion then around Temple Bar. We some how ended up in O'Shea's Merchant which seemed to holding a OAP singles night which was funny to watch. Before we knew it, we were getting taxi home bout 2 am.
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Earlyish start next morning, we all hopped on to the bus into town, where we got a bite to eat before meeting the cousins in Quinn's in Drumcondra for few pints before the game. It was great to see everyone, some not seen in years. Before we knew it, was time to head to Croke Park. From the onset, my heart was in my sleeve with nerves and excitement. I was sitting with my cousin in Upper Davin Stand, I had a good view of the match. My Dad and Niamh were in the Upper Hogan, near the 65 m line, behind the press box.
As the game progressed, was amazing watching our players such as Shane O Donnell execute some outstanding plays. When the final whistle blew, I nearly cried with delight. Watching the players and the celebrations as they lifted up the Liam McCarthy cup, and did the lap of honour around the pitch, was such an amazing sight to be hold. And I wouldn't exchange anything for witnessing such an emotional event like that.
After the celebrations in the stadium, I meet my Dad and Niamh back at Quinn's before heading into town for dinner at Flanagan's on O'Connell st. We then headed to Clare supporters HQ at Dandelion. The atmosphere was unbelievable in there, was so packed but great fun.. It was a late but fun night. Niamh and my dad left about 3.30 am, had to wait over half an hour for a taxi, before getting home after 4.30 am.
Finally got in the door at 6 am myself. Lucky I managed to book a taxi for 8.30 am on my route home, or I would have slept in, only thanks for the taxi driver ringing me. Work that morning was my personal form of hell lol. That night I had a nice Chinese takeaway before watching the Clare Homecoming for the double all Ireland Champions U 21 and Senior teams, was great to see a turnout of excess of 30,000 people to welcome them home. Due to volumes of people watching the homecoming on the app and site from around the country and even the world, the video feed kept crashing, but lucky all the key moments were also covered by Clare FM radio, twitter and Facebook. The lads deserved it, well done again.
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As the game progressed, was amazing watching our players such as Shane O Donnell execute some outstanding plays. When the final whistle blew, I nearly cried with delight. Watching the players and the celebrations as they lifted up the Liam McCarthy cup, and did the lap of honour around the pitch, was such an amazing sight to be hold. And I wouldn't exchange anything for witnessing such an emotional event like that.
After the celebrations in the stadium, I meet my Dad and Niamh back at Quinn's before heading into town for dinner at Flanagan's on O'Connell st. We then headed to Clare supporters HQ at Dandelion. The atmosphere was unbelievable in there, was so packed but great fun.. It was a late but fun night. Niamh and my dad left about 3.30 am, had to wait over half an hour for a taxi, before getting home after 4.30 am.
Finally got in the door at 6 am myself. Lucky I managed to book a taxi for 8.30 am on my route home, or I would have slept in, only thanks for the taxi driver ringing me. Work that morning was my personal form of hell lol. That night I had a nice Chinese takeaway before watching the Clare Homecoming for the double all Ireland Champions U 21 and Senior teams, was great to see a turnout of excess of 30,000 people to welcome them home. Due to volumes of people watching the homecoming on the app and site from around the country and even the world, the video feed kept crashing, but lucky all the key moments were also covered by Clare FM radio, twitter and Facebook. The lads deserved it, well done again.
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