He will manager The Nire in a big Munster clash next Sunday after a family affair last weekend
“There was only a tiny little shield for the Munster club,” he recalls. “And I felt the competition deserved better, it deserved a proper cup. So, I bitterly put my hand in my pocket and bought one. That’s how it came about.”
And he hopes for an afternoon with less stress than events in Mallow last Sunday. Ballymacarbry entered last week’s decider against The Banner having lost 11 Munster club senior women’s finals since 2001. “We gave away the ball several times, I kept saying, Oh my God, because I feared we were going to lose it. It was so tough watching on. The final whistle couldn’t come soon enough, we had waited so long to get back to the top in Munster again and we felt every single one of those 22 years during the last 15 minutes.”
“Yes, we’re trading places,” smiles Michael, who has now managed The Nire to back-to-back Waterford senior football titles. In last year’s Munster championship they lost to Newcastle West at the quarter-final stages. Éire Óg, also two-in-a-row county winners, beat Loughmore-Castleiney in a provincial quarter-final last year.
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