“The nurses are great, they are doing calls for us. We get to ring them twice a day. They gave us a couple of video calls just to see him. Obviously he wasn’t conscious or anything, but we got to see him. We could talk away to him, but he wasn’t saying anything back.”

Cork’S Briege Corkery is now officially on par with Mayo legend Cora Staunton and Kerry’s Mary Jo Curran having picked up her 10th bronze statuette at Saturday night’s TG4 Ladies Football All-Star Awards at the Citywest in Dublin.