'It really can happen to anyone. Nobody is invincible,' says Siobhan McGrath.
IN THE TWO years since Siobhan McGrath last donned the Sky Blue jersey, the personnel of the Dublin senior ladies football team has changed dramatically.
“To be honest, when I look at the panel myself, there’s not a whole lot that I know. There’s two in particular, the two minors that came through this year. They’ve just settled in unbelievably, to be even starting the last day was just phenomenal for them. They don’t seem to be fazed by it,” McGrath said.
She had previously stepped away from the panel in 2014 with just a solitary All-Ireland crown to her name from four years earlier, but was eventually coaxed back by Jackies manager Mick Bohan ahead of the 2018 inter-county season.She found it hard to readjust to life as an inter-county footballer, but it eventually paid dividends for McGrath. As well as winning three All-Irelands on the bounce upon her return, she was also named TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year in 2019.
After exiting the inter-county stage with four Celtic Crosses to her name, McGrath will now hope to go a step further than last year’s club championship, when she was part of a Thomas Davis side that narrowly lost out to Kilmacud Crokes in the Dublin Senior Ladies Football Championship final. “Eventually when I could get a sentence down, I had to figure out how to unlock my phone first and then I rang my Mam. She didn’t really know what was going on, but she got the gist that I needed to go to the doctor or to a hospital. She came down to me. The symptoms lasted around 20 minutes, 25 minutes.
A week-long stay in Tallaght University Hospital followed, but McGrath was ultimately able to resume her working and sporting lives in a relatively short space of time.
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