Big day regrets still haunting Mourneabbey footballers

It’s not the loss of three All-Ireland finals in four years that gnaws away at the footballers of Mourneabbey, but rather the sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach that they didn’t perform in any of those three games.

When Shane Ronayne came in as Mourneabbey manager five years ago, players and the new management gathered for a meeting in the clubhouse ahead of the 2014 season. Róisín O’Sullivan, among the more experienced members of the set-up having been part of the 2005 and 2007 All-Ireland junior and intermediate club final victories, remembers Ronayne asking the group how their rival clubs in Cork would describe them.