The Republic of Ireland player is not dwelling on the past as an opportunity to make history beckons this weekend against Northern Ireland at the Aviva Stadium
“I just have to look back and say I was honoured to be in that training camp, but of course it was bittersweet watching the games and thinking you could have been there. I was so close.”
The striker is no stranger to the stadium having played in two FAI Cup finals there for Cork City, losing in 2020 but on the winning side in 2017 when she was part of the team that beat the then Gleeson-managed UCD Waves. “When the crowd started coming in, they were coming for the men, not to support us, some of them mightn’t even have known we were playing. When we went out at the start, the crowd wasn’t huge, but it was by the time we were lifting the cup. It was bitter sweet, but at the same time I think we just felt privileged to be there, the women’s game wasn’t at the level it is now.”
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