
Share
26th September 2017
06:26pm BST

"It is (everything I thought it’d be) I was mindful, the last few years I’d be seeing lads and you’d always see lads saying they rarely enjoyed it, I think I saw Jackie Tyrell saying in his book he didn’t really enjoy being captain after the game (because) he missed a lot but I just kind of said I’d take it all in if I could enjoy it and I have, definitely," Burke said. "I have a smile on my face every morning going to work."
Burke also revealed the intricacies of writing an All-Ireland speech and when he wrote it:
"I wrote it three days after the Tipperary game. Well, I got help off of my mother," Burke admitted.
"Sure, I had one done for the Leinster final and one for the league and put everything together and did a few more bits It was just bullet points really gave it to the kit man and the mother as well.
"I didn’t see it again for the three weeks again before the game and it kind of took the pressure off me," he concluded.