TOMAS QUINN: A victory for inner strength and self-belief

Every team starts out a year with targets and goals.

Most will measure themselves on silverware and winning games but the biggest challenge is actually mapping out how you are going to achieve these goals and what steps need to be taken to get there. Before you start working out how to get there, you have to work out where there is. You should be ambitious but you must be realistic.

Yesterday in Croke Park, in the biggest GAA game any club player will experience, St Brigid’s gave an incredible display over 60 minutes that bore the hallmark of a team with total belief in the steps they’d mapped out for their journey — and precisely what was required of each and every individual involved.