*Eugene Foudy celebrates in the Inagh/Kilnamona dressing room. Photograph: Ruth Griffin.
INAGH/KILNAMONA are overjoyed to end a five year wait for senior camogie championship honours and will put their “best foot forward” when lining out in the Munster club campaign.
Manager Eugene Foudy has had a part to play in many good days with the camogie club. Saturday’s extra time win over Truagh/Clonlara certainly falls into that category.
He maintained the hard yards paid off for Inagh/Kilnamona to lift the McMahon Cup. “Credit to our girls for their display in extra time. From the second minute of the extra time we took over and we held them to one point. I knew we had the fitness and I said that to them in the dressing room. I know they have been giving out to us about all the runs and the hard slogs but that’s what it about. Look they are a credit to the club and to the parish”.
With full time approaching, they trailed by two points until Clare Hehir struck for goal from a free. “I thought it was going from us bur then we won that free and Clare stuck it and we were ahead. Then Roisin (Begley) struck a superb free from the sideline and I said this is 2024 all over again,” he admitted.
Celebrations were the immediate focus but attention now switches to the Munster club championship. “To win today was huge as we hadn’t won this title in five years. We will put our best foot forward. We will re-group early in the week and we will be ready for Sunday. Hopefully the game will be on in Inagh in front of a big crowd and we will represent Clare well”, the Inagh man told The Clare Echo.
Newly appointed as the Clare senior camogie manager, he is pleased with the standard in the club championship. “The workrate of the thirty seven or eight girls that played today was unbelievable The standard of the game and that of last week’s intermediate final was unbelievable and I hope to drive that on. If I get a fraction of that with the Clare team, it will be great”.
