DARRAGH Mulgrew will look to collect his fourth senior championship medal in today’s Final.
Mulgrew knows what it takes to get over the line and he was part of successful ‘Eunan’s teams in 2012, 2014, and 2021.
He’s based at home at the moment, and is glad that he doesn’t have the long commute to Dublin as he tries to earn a spot in the final after an injury-struck championship.
“I have three at the moment.
“I have a couple of years left in me.
“It would be nice to win a fourth. I’ll get the head down. It’s a tough 15 to get into and I have to work hard on an individual basis, and try and get back into the starting line-up for the final.
“But it’s a credit to the boys that are playing. They all want to keep their place.
“I’ve had a few niggles throughout the year, but I’ve been training for the last few weeks now and you just see the talent on the pitch.
“You can see why there are a couple of changes before each game.
“We have thirty boys that could be in the first 15 at any time and that’s what keeps us competitive.”
Peter McEniff and Sean McGettigan emigrated after last season but in general, St Eunan’s have been good and keeping their players in their twenties at home for the championship, and Mulgrew explains why that it is.
“I suppose there’s the ambition of the club itself. We know where we can get to, and that’s why we’re all staying about.
“We want to achieve and win things with the club.
“We see all the young people coming out to watch the game and we want to promote our own club.
“We have a great batch of young players here who are really driving it on.
“I know when I was breaking into the senior team years ago, you just want to be part of it.
“There’s a lot of people that want to play for the crest and we think about the people we have lost over the last couple of years too, and that keeps us together as a group.”
St Eunan’s haven’t been at their best in the last two games but have beaten Naomh Conaill and Gaoth Dobhair by a point, and may have lost those games in other years.
“I suppose there is a glory in winning.
“I felt for the boys from Gaoth Dobhair who lost by one point because we have been there ourselves and it’s not a nice dressing room to be going into, especially when it’s at the semi-final.
“It’s never easy, but credit to our boys. We worked hard and were compact at the end.
“The free-kick they had at the end is something we will have to look back on and we probably let them back into it.”
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