Bowles: our girls did everything that was asked of them

RICHARD BOWLES had only one thing on his mind when he entered the Galway dressing room and spoke to his team after they had lost their All-Ireland crown to Cork.

It was going to be next to impossible to try and lift their spirits and he didn’t need to be told that. But he took solace from knowing the character of the girls and the friendships within the 30-strong squad which he hoped would ease the ‘rawness’ they felt within.

“They are all desperately disappointed - the amount of work that everybody has put in since the end of December when we came together collectively, and to have experienced the high of last year,” he said.