What an achievement.
It's rare enough to say that you've ever won a championship title.
The people you grew up with playing alongside you and winning the title, now that is something.
What is even more impressive, however, is doing it with people that you didn't grow up with and that is what happened one ladies football team in Dublin.
St.Brendan's has a unique honour that it has no Dublin born and bred footballers on its senior football team, nope not one.
Their captain is from Spain, their vice captain is from Kerry and also have players from Poland, Germany, Argentina and most importantly Leitrim.
In fact, the list of counties and countries involved is quite impressive for one team.
- Kerry
- Meath
- Mayo
- Cork
- Sligo
- Roscommon
- Clare
- Wexford
- Limerick
- Cavan
- Westmeath
- Leitrim
- Tyrone
- Donegal
- Kilkenny
- Armagh
- Canada
- Argentina
- Germany
- Poland
- Spain
Well, after topping their group St.Brendan's played St Monica's and won emphatically with a scoreline of 2-13 to 1-7 and safe to say the girls were delighted.
And the team photos were plentiful.
St.Brendan's may well be the first team with no Dublin born and bred to win a championship title in the county but the reality is that they won't be the last.
As rural to urban migration continues to grow the non-Dublin playing population also begins to grow.People move here to live and to work and for many a vital part of that living is getting involved in the community and getting involved in the GAA.
