But coming back down to Wexford after that misery a couple of weeks ago in the Leinster semifinal, how important was it to keep momentum going and get the five from five today?

Yeah, definitely.

I suppose we were so disappointed after that Leinster semifinal, and I think that's definitely what pushed us on for the championship games to get back up.

And even coming down here again this evening, it was like, "Oh, God, we can't let that happen again." So we want to make it five wins from five and set us up nicely for the weekend.

How nice was it to get back out on the field again and put that jersey on your back to play for Kilkenny?

Yeah, I was delighted to be back.

I was doing the Leaving Cert, so it was just, I couldn't get it done quick enough to be back and just back in training with the girls, and it's just such a good buzz around the place, especially now leading up to the weekend, so.

One of the younger members of that Kilkenny panel, what's the whole experience been like for you?

It's been a good experience.

I'm delighted to be back now after the leave insert.

I couldn't get it finished quick enough to be back in with all the girls.

Such a good buzz and all the older ones are just so welcoming and it's just so nice to be playing with them.

But looking at that game and previous games, no real change in the level of performance.

Yeah well I suppose we've been watching the girls for so long now and we've been itching to get in there so we were told today when we had our chance to take it and try and prove ourselves and to be fair the girls have done so well for the entire league so it's nice to be able to get in there and try and finish it off.

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... that when Jess was talking, when d- when, when you were talking about like the, the nervous, like, uh, the nervous system deconstruction and things like that, it got me thinking about how I did a lot of rec- deconstruction in 2019.

This all happened.

Everything kind of just fell apart for me, and life got really hard and so overwhelming.

I didn't know what was happening, but I was like I was trying to take one step forward in front of the other.

I got better, started doing the thing, started integrating, and then I started doing a form of exercise which has deregulated me, and I've had to balance it out with qigong.

And I went to lunch with Nicole one day, and we were talking.

Mm-hmm.Rachel, what would you like to add?