Player-manager Valerie Mulcahy has rediscovered the buzz in football 

Valerie Mulcahy celebrates victory in the 2011 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship Quarter-Final with her Cork manager and mentor Eamonn Ryan. Photo: David Maher

Almost five years on from winning a tenth TG4 All-Ireland Senior medal with Cork, Valerie Mulcahy has found a hunger to play football again.

As one of the most decorated Ladies footballers of all time, the Rockbán native thought she had clocked out of the game for the final time before the 2016 championship, with her head turned towards the coaching game.