The star forward explains her decision to The42.
Eimear Scally in action for Cork in 2019. Image: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO EIMEAR SCALLY HAS opened up on her decision to depart the Cork ladies football panel.
Her senior breakthrough arrived in the 2014 All-Ireland final, when the teenage substitute famously promised — and scored — a crucial goal to steer Eamonn Ryan’s all-conquering side to glory. Scally endured a stop-start 2022 amidst injury struggles, but points to other issues when reflecting on a disappointing season and her decision to depart.
Limited to a substitute role for the latter stages of 2022, Scally is conscious not to come across as bitter or spiteful. “I suppose making the step-up from minor to senior was with Eamonn Ryan at the time, and I can’t really speak about my experience of transition into that team more positively. You knew your place in there, everyone was treated equally, and the OGs that you had in there, the lessons you’d learn off them about togetherness, what a team is, what a team should be, being graceful in victory and defeat always came true – and how to work hard.
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