Rena ‘takes it to a whole new level’

“I wouldn’t like to count all the All-Ireland medals in this room,” remarked Joan O’Flynn, Camogie Association chief executive, as she began proceedings at a lunch honouring Rena Buckley’s record-breaking career at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

I looked around at the players, past and present, at my own table of nine. Around 50 medals, at a rough estimate — and that was just one table out of 10.

Buckley herself, of course, can account for 18 — 11 football, seven camogie, the most of any person to play Gaelic games.