Julie Jay: My five-year-old’s first trip to Croke Park was a cracker

When a town wins the All-Ireland final, it’s not just the players at the pitch who win, but everyone, whether its the child blowing his horn or the 40-something-year-old woman like me who’s never kicked a ball in her life

Dingle's Mikey Geaney celebrates kicking the winning point at the All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship Final between Dingle and St Brigid's. Photo: INPHO/James Crombie

LAST week was Number One’s first trip to Croke Park, and boy was it worth the nine-hour round trip to our nation’s capital.

By the time we arrived in the stadium, the hurling was in its final moments, with our Munster cousins Ballygunner coming out on top. After the fanfare had died down, we took our place for the football game, and I was mortified immediately. Not by any wayward behaviour from Number One, but because our seats were way too good for the likes of me, a woman who had never kicked a ball in her life.