*Eoin Tuohy is congratulated by supporters. Photograph: Ruth Griffin.
FEAKLE were determined to grab their chance of county final glory knowing full well the opportunity may not arise again.
As a young lad you dream of days like this and you think that they might never come but when they come it’s an unbelievable feeling. So said one of the stars of Feakle’s Clare senior hurling final victory on October Bank holiday Monday, wing back Eoin Tuohy who incidentally, scored the opening and closing point in Monday’s final.
“We made sure coming here that we would be hungry enough because we might never get this chance again. When chances like this come around you have to make every effort to capitalise. We worked hard to make sure we were going to perform and give it everything and thankfully it worked out for us”, he said amidst the celebrations.
Tuohy told The Clare Echo, “You always have to keep going, you might think that you have it but you have to stay going to the very end. Thankfully we got to enjoy the last couple of minutes as we weren’t under fierce pressure”.
Referring to the absence of full back Evan McMahon who suffered a cruciate ligament injury in the semi-final he said “he was a huge loss as he has been there for us for the last ten years but we had confidence that the lad coming in would do the job. We knew Eoghan (Daly) would be able to cover Evan’s position”.
Referring to the thirty six year gap since the title was last won by Feakle, Eoin said “none of us were around then and this is a new feeling. We always hear about ‘88, now we can talk about ‘24. Hurling means everything in Feakle, everyone eats, sleeps and breathes hurling in Feakle and it’s great that we can reward the people of Feakle with this”
Concluding he said “we will take the week off and come back next week and knuckle down again. We will want to perform when we go to Cork and we will want to represent Clare well in what has been a great year for Clare hurling. For now, however, we are going to celebrate this achievement”.
