By Daire Walsh

Glanmire manager Vinny Barry said they kept improving all season and all the hard work has paid off after they captured the currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Intermediate Club Championship title at Croke Park.

“It’s unbelievable. We had a long year, a lot of championship games,” he said. “Winning the Cork county was only the beginning of the year. We succeeded in that, won by a point.

“Went to the quarter-finals then, won the Munster and then had to go to London to play an extremely good team Tir Chonaill Gaels in an All-Ireland quarter-final. Beat Na Fianna in the semi-final, but this was just exceptional, I must say. A great feeling. To bring three cups back to Glanmire in the one season is just incredible.

“We learnt a lot from the semi-final with Na Fianna. To be honest, we had a terrible first half against Na Fianna. We got no score from play, just two scores from frees. We spoke about it at half-time and we were a different team in the second half. We looked at the game ourselves and we said ‘that’s not going to work in Croke Park on the day of an All-Ireland final’.

“So we ironed out a few things and we knew if we got early goals that we’d put Ballinamore under pressure. We really did and we had a nice lead at half-time. It was a nice lead, but we knew Ballinamore were going to come at us the first 10 minutes in the second half, which we did.

“We made a few errors and mistakes, but we picked it up again and we’re delighted.”

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