Always finding answers
The night of his championship debut against Wexford last year had been particularly torturous. What if he made a mistake? How loud would the crowd groan? What if Dublin fell behind? What if they lost? As it turned out they didn’t, but they almost did with McMenamin taken off long before the end, a shadow of the player he had been for most of the league.
In almost any other setup he wouldn’t have known where to turn to, but with this one he did. Caroline Currid had been there with them from their very first session of 2010, out on the basketball court in DCU at 6.30 on a frosty January morning, and from then on it was like she was one of them.