Feakle

Like you can't, there's no team ever just going to win every game and everything is rosy.

Like the first year I was here, we lost to Feakle in a game we were looking at to win.

And I suppose it hurt.

We lost the game in extra time and added time.

But again, we sucked it up and we got on with it.

The following year, we've tried to fix that against Feakle and we beat them in the group.

They went down to win it.

We lost out to Conor McGrath's pint.

And there's teams that are there of your...

Feakle/Killeeny would be probably disappointed as well to, to get a little bit further and-

Yeah.

I, I would say, yeah, I'd agree with you.

Does that bring extra pressure? Same for the county feel, I suppose.

Well, yeah, I, I actually, in the first two games, um, against, first one was against Feakle, second one was against Scariff this year.

I'd only had points scored in, in each of them.

Oh, that must have hurt you.

You've great supporters.

Yeah, no, the support is savage.

It's been savage all year from the first round above in Feakle to, to the county final, and it's been like that ever since I've been involved, and they're, they're absolutely incredible, and what they won't do for the girls is, to be honest, it's, th- there isn't actually anything.

They, if we ask any of them to do anything, they're there first thing in the morning.

Well, we've never agreed a change in policy here.

Uh, we have actually always had a policy where we looked after key link roads here and there, particularly roads like Crusheen down to Clooney, the Narbury Line, different ones, links from Tullagh to Feakle.

All those roads, uh, are, are part of a, a, a school bus routes, and we need to make sure that the standard that actually makes it safe, uh, for, for, for people.

I think that needs to be brought back in there.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, and we see a lot of the time there a lot of the Kilfenora boys will come to Feakle to play on the Thursday night, you know, uh, in the sessions in Sharte's.

And anything that's happened for the Tulla band, a lot of the Kilfenora lads turn up to, and vice versa.

They're great friends, yeah.

There is relatively little surviving documentation from the earliest part of her life compared with the extraordinary amount of folklore that later gathered around her.

Although accounts consistently place her in domestic and agricultural work when she was young, she married several times and lived in different parts of Clare before eventually settling near Kilbarron, close to Feakle, where the reputation that would follow her for the rest of her life became firmly established.

The Ireland in which Biddy lived still had plenty of room for someone like her.

Doctors existed, and medical knowledge was developing rapidly throughout the 19th century, while the Catholic Church held enormous influence over rural communities.

Her last husband, Thomas Meaney, whom she married in 1869, died the following year, leaving Biddy widowed once again.

By then she was an elderly woman, and the crowds that had once gathered around her had begun to thin.

She died at Kilbarron on the 22nd of April 1874, aged around 75, and was buried at Feakle.

Contemporary biographical accounts describe her dying in poverty, although her reputation had long since become far larger than the circumstances in which she actually lived.