Valerie Mulcahy: ‘You must have pride in the jersey you wear’

They’re a privileged bunch, and they know it.

Yes, they’ve had to endure cold showers, long drives home from training with no food in their stomach and the embarrassment of knocking on doors begging for a couple of euros so they could roll off the team bus on match-day with a decent jacket on their back and a proper gear bag in their hand.

But, with 38 All-Ireland medals between them, 43 if you include club achievements, Juliet Murphy, Valerie Mulcahy, Anna Geary, and Briege Corkery have also been exposed to a world most ladies footballers and camogie players could only ever dream of.