Galway captain Kate Geraghty pointed to the “individual battles” won by the Tribeswomen in yesterday’s All-Ireland ladies senior football championship final.

Daniel Moynihan’s side edged Kerry by 2-7 to 0-12 at Croke Park to claim their county’s first Brendan Martin Cup success in 22 long years.

Named Player of the Match afterwards, Geraghty described to TG4 the feeling of joy for her and her team after finally getting over the line to All-Ireland senior glory.

“What an amazing feeling,” she said. “I’m just so happy to be here listening to the ‘N17′ and everyone shouting and screaming. 

“Our management team has been fantastic, and they’ve really put everything in place for us to win here today. We were playing a sweeper system. We had Siobhán [Divilly] dropping back and Louise [Ward] so they were helping us out. All of our individual battles were so important, and I think we have such great man-markers in our defence and that really helped.

“We worked on controlling the game so much. We would have lost a couple of games in the last five or 10 minutes and with that free at the end, I was afraid it was going to happen again, but I’m so happy it didn’t go that way.”

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