Niamh Farrelly on life at Galway United after playing professionally in Scotland, England and Italy.
Emma Duffy NIAMH FARRELLY VIVIDLY remembers leaving Ireland to embark on a professional football career five years ago.And the unknown accentuated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Advertisement “I had planned to obviously stay in London another year, but it wasn’t working out for me there. I just thought for my own happiness off the pitch, I want to be playing. So I made the decision to come back. When I had the idea of finishing my degree, I was thinking it would be the perfect opportunity.”
“Playing professionally, it’s your whole life. For me, it kind of still is my whole life because I try to live as a professional even if I’m not deemed as a professional. “Then it’s trying to bring everything that I’ve experienced abroad on the pitch, and just try and help us win some trophies.” “There’s better coverage around the league, games being on TG4. It definitely has come on. It still has leaps and bounds , obviously, financial sides of it and all can obviously get better. But overall, it’s definitely on the on the rise.”
A lack of game-time and unfortunate niggles saw Farrelly drop off the fringes, and ultimately detailed her international career. But she must still hold ambitions on that front?
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