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7th December 2017
12:07pm GMT

"I'm not a big sentimental person or anything like that but we were after winning three-in-a-row, I was lucky enough to be captain of my club to do it. I really, really enjoyed the day and, in my eyes, as soon as I left the dressing room or left Cusack Park, the game was over and the moment was gone for me," he said. "So I wanted to stay in the dressing room as long as I could. I was the last one leaving as I usually am after a good game and I just started tidying up a little bit. It wasn't a big deal, I didn't expect a big deal to be made of it or anything like that. "It was his [the chairman's] club we beat in the final, I didn't ask him to say anything."Life is just a series of fleeting images and you should capture the best ones.
"It was moreso to prolong the moment. Playing GAA gives you some special moments. It gives you tough times too - when you lose against Dublin at Croke Park by 30-odd points, you fairly want to run out of the dressing room, you wouldn't be cleaning up that day - but it does give you the special moments. "Once you win a county final, you're going on to a Leinster campaign and it's important not to dwell on that win. It would've been the same against Simonstown and Mullinalaghta when we won those games, you have to enjoy it in the moment because, when we leave the dressing room, when we leave the ground, you have another job on hand and it's two weeks away to the next game. "That was all it was. It wasn't anything major. And I probably did a half-arsed job of cleaning the dressing room anyway."Listen to the full interview below.
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