Mullinahone LGFA of Tipperary have had an incredible journey, culminating in their second All-Ireland club final in as many years.
Jennifer Brett captains Mullinahone in Saturday's currentaccount.ie All-Ireland ladies intermediate club football championship final. Image: Eóin Noonan/SPORTSFILE THIS IS HURLING and camogie country.
“It’s a great success story,” Mullinahone LGFA chairperson Gráinne Dunne tells The42. “We’re only a small little place. Mullinahone is a small little village in the middle of nowhere, really. It’s a big deal.”Mullinahone LGFA, in its current form, was founded in 2002. Dunne, amazingly, was chairperson back then too. “I have had breaks, though,” she laughs.
“A lot were playing with Sliabh na mBan and when we set up the juvenille section in Mullinahone in 2002, some of them came to us and asked would we would we consider an adult team.“In 2003, there was the first adult team in Mullinahone and they started off from there, from Junior C. It’s taken 20 years, if you look at it, from 2003 up to now… we’re senior B now in Tipperary but it’s taken 20 years to reach that level.
“Football was very different back then than it is now. Now, its profile is obviously much more highlighted. It’s become very popular. Now, you have all your strength and conditioning, your nutrition, your tactics, your analysis, all that’s going on now, whereas we trained, we played and we partied. That’s what football was. It was a very social thing, and I think it still is very social. That’s a good thing for young girls.
Dunne lists off those representatives, which include Kilkenny All-Ireland winning camógs Denise Gaule and Michaela Kenneally, and recalls how the link was originally forged through Poulacapple National School on the county divide.
There’s the flags and posters throughout the village, coaching sessions in the schools, player profiles on social media; you name it.
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