Róisín Phelan is preparing for a senior Cork championship final with Aghada this weekend.
AS SHE GETS set to feature in Aghada’s first-ever Senior ‘A’ Championship final at MTU tomorrow afternoon, former Cork star Róisín Phelan has said that getting a chance to focus solely on club football in 2024 has proven to be ‘a breath of fresh air’.
“It has been a breath of fresh air really. I guess I played inter-county for an awfully long time and the body starts to creek a little bit after a while. When you come back into club football after playing inter-county all year, you feel like you’re permanently attached to the physio bed,” Phelan explained.
Advertisement “I called Shane last November to retire and I guess I probably had been thinking about it for a while, but it’s very different thinking about it and actually making that phone call. Thankfully I haven’t regretted it. She has also tasted success with Aghada in the past, winning the full complement of Cork, Munster and All-Ireland championships at the junior grade in 2017 before also securing an intermediate county title 12 months later. Phelan has an opportunity to add significantly to those triumphs in MTU tomorrow and she acknowledged club success ranks up there with some of her best achievements in a Cork jersey.
Standing between Aghada and their quest for a maiden Cork Senior ‘A’ Championship success will be a side that are no strangers to this stage of the competition. In each of the past three years, the Knockanemore club have finished runners-up to the all-conquering Mourneabbey – whose early exit from the 2024 championship threw the competition wide open.
“Hopefully we’ll come out the right side of it, but we’re under no illusions about how hard that is going to be. Obviously there’s a good few of us now who have played inter-county for a few years, so I’m sure we know as much about them as they do about us.”
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