Tomás Mulcahy

I don't know how you would feel now, you know, yourself, even if you won something big with the club.

But to see the outpouring of emotion, see Tomas Mulcahy and all he won as a player, I suppose, with the Glen and then obviously himself as what he did with Corklake in his own personal career.

Just to see the emotion On their faces afterwards And I suppose Particularly with the Dlane When they Went down a couple of years ago They came back up straight away And to do it When maybe a lot of people Down and around Cork Circus Were saying Maybe they were done like As a club for a while But Phenomenal stuff like Really really Class style Scenes were unreal Yeah

Yeah, you're right there, Shane, about the relegation that they suffered three years ago.

I'm sure it was similar in Clare and a couple of other spots around the county.

are we talking like well over 100,000 attending club finals at the weekend I think very easily even with senior finals you'd absolutely get that and then you take into account you've got LGFA and Camogie finals you've got junior intermediate finals and men's hurling and football as well there's so much happening but in Cork Owen look it was a titanic battle I didn't think the bars were at their best early doors and next thing Brian Hayes gets into it and they take a lead at half time you listen to Tomás Mulcahy afterwards like the emotion the emotion in all of these games Sunday games it's just it's personal wherever you go and for different reasons some people are trying to win something in honour of fallen teammates or people that have gone before them others are just trying to get one over on the neighbours and Mulcahy afterwards said no disrespect but beating the bars makes it sweeter and I love that I love that because that's what keeps us going in the GAA it's the local rivalry when it gets the club and getting one up on the neighbours and even though I'm sure maybe not with the bars this week because they've got a football final to come but the tradition in a lot of counties is that the losing team will go on drink a couple of points on the Tuesday maybe with the with the winners in their own pub in their local or maybe vice versa the winners will go over to the beating team and I just think these teams keep coming back and I just think, I just love it.

I just love the honesty of that.

But Patrick Horgan, Hoggy, delivering.

It was the first time the two teams have met since 88, where Finbares came out on top last time, seven points.

Tomás Mulcahy was manager back then, but now it was the Glen's turn and they ultimately came out on top, two goals from O'Leary.

The big difference there as the Northside were crowned champions for the first time since 2016.

And their 28th title overall.

It's Melanie Browne with you for the next half hour.

We'll have reaction from Glen Rover's win over Finn Barsbury shortly.

We'll hear from Ono Leary, Rob Downie and of course Tomás Mulcahy.

But for now, we head back to last night where Munster took on Racing 92 in what was an emotional game on the 10th anniversary of Axel Foley.

And the big red bench got to both.

We caught up with Tomas Mulcahy, proud of the Glen Rovers boss.

Now, Tomas, thanks a million for joining us.

We're sat here in the clubhouse.

It is, yeah.

But, uh, Glen Rovers manager Tomas Mulcahy has been speaking about the influence of Patrick Horgan and his own memories of playing the Barrs.

Well, I'm smiling because I was captain of the team in nineteen eighty-eight, and the Barrs gave us an unmerciful hammering out there.

Um, lucky enough, I came back the following year to cap the team to win it in eighty-nine.

Get a big crowd county final day, you can't beat it.

The Glen, the Barrs.

He set it up well there, Tomas Mulcahy.

And Sunday's Donegal County football final looks between Nave Campbell and St. Eunan's.

Yeah

... to national radio, but Glen Rovers has this incredible tradition going back, Jack Lynch, Christy Ring, Tomás Mulcahy, John Fitzgibbon, incredible players.

But yet you had the fallow period, didn't you, between 1989 and 2015 without a senior county title?

Yeah, it was a long time, 26 years.

Now, it's been 38 years since those sides last met back in '88, and it was the Barrs who came out on top, seven points.

And Glen Rovers manager, Tomas Mulcahy, was actually captain this year.

I had the pleasure of catching up with himself, Captain Adam Lynch, and player Liam Coughlan on Thursday evening.

Now, Tomas, thanks a million for joining us.