Success breeds success for An Ghaeltacht
January 20, 2018
An Ghaeltacht's Pádraig and Marc Ó Sé celebrate.
Pic via Marc Ó Sé @osemarc2.
The seeds for An Ghaeltacht's march to tomorrow's All-Ireland Club IFC semi-final were sown when they won the 2017 Comórtas Peile Páidi Ó Sé.
That is the opinion of the late, great Páidi's son, Pádraig, who will line out opposite the Cavanagh brothers and Moy in tomorrow's penultimate stage clash which is penciled in for Portlaoise (2pm).
"We had a great start to the year last year when we won Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta and we hadn't that won it about 20 years and that gave us a good lift to drive on," Pádraig outlined to The Irish Independent.
"We then went onto win the Kerry intermediate title and kept it going.
"(There's) huge excitement this year. I've definitely seen an increase in the number of people who have gotten behind us; people who you mightn't see at a game at all are starting to come.
"Yeah, it's huge and football is huge for the people in the area. The last couple of years things haven't gone well for An Ghaeltacht. We nearly went down to Division 4 in the county league but we were lucky in that we had a crop of young players that came up in the last two years and we managed to keep them all together.
"And we'll be senior (in the county championship) this year so we're looking forward to that."
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