Mikey Geaney has described winning the All-Ireland club SFC title with Dingle as ‘the most special day in my career’.

The long-serving forward came off the bench to kick a last-gasp winning point as the West Kerry men edged out St Brigid’s after extra-time at Croke Park to lift the Andy Merrigan Cup for the first time and complete a remarkable treble of All-Ireland club football successes for the Kingdom.

Geaney won an All-Ireland SFC medal with Kerry in 2014, but winning with his club surpassed it as he explained in an interview with RTÉ Radio: "As good as it gets now, to be honest.

"It's unbelievable to get a cup and be All-Ireland champions on the day. But I reckon it'll be four, five, six years down the line when this will really sink in and what we've achieved here. 

"It's been incredible. From where we've come from the last three-and-a-half months: nearly been for a long time, and then we won our first county final. We won the Munster final at the death, and then the Ballyboden game, and then this game after extra-time when we were four points down, and three points down in extra-time.

"We're just too stubborn back the west to know any different. We just keep going and keep going and keep going. And I don't know. For now, it's the most special day in my career, anyway, by a country mile."

Reflecting on his dramatic winner, the 36-year-old added: "We had three back and we had an extra man.

"So I said we might as well go and have a crack at it. I gave the ball to Tom (O’) Sullivan. I knew that if he had the ball, there'd be two or three that would go towards him.

"And I chanced it, slipping in the back door. He gave me the ball and I gave it a kick. Another four or five minutes on the clock, and I don't think it would have reached it. I don't know did I have enough in my legs. It got there. And that's all that matters. It's just incredible."

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