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24th March 2020
12:41pm GMT

By Declan Rooney
“You want to be playing against the best. The young girls coming up, they aren’t scared of playing against those teams either, so that’s a really important thing. The fact that we were down in Intermediate last year gave those girls a year to develop and see what adult football is like.
“Hopefully they can bring all that into Senior level. They have shown they can compete in Division 1 as well so hopefully it will be a really good summer for us.”
Returning home on the heels of McCarthy is her inter-county teammate Orla O’Dwyer, who played in last weekend’s finals for Brisbane Lions. With the duo back in the fold along with the likes of McCarthy’s Cahir clubmate Aishling Moloney it could yet be a fruitful season for Tipp.
“I remember watching Tipp’s first league game against Dublin and my heart was in my mouth. It is things like that where you miss it a lot. I would have loved to have been playing that game against the All-Ireland champions.
“Having someone like Aishling Moloney in the forwards is great. She will always say herself that it takes a team to get the ball up to her, but when you get the ball up there it’s hard to stop her.
“Teams often put a couple of defenders on her, but when she is on her game there is no way of stopping her. Especially in that Dublin game, our defence was brilliant and when we got it up to Aishling she had her scoring boots on and she hit that late point to level it.
“Hopefully now when we get back to championship she can pick up where she left off in the league.”
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