'Camogie kind of saved my life': Waterford’s resilient goalkeeper Brianna O’Regan

In 2006, when Brianna was just seven, her parents Bryan and Johanna, and 21-month-old sister Niamh, died in a house fire at their home in Ballybeg

Waterford’s Brianna O’Regan in action against Limerick in a 2018 National League game. Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

This afternoon Waterford’s Brianna O’Regan will be laser-focused as John Dermody throws the sliotar in to signal the commencement of the second Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Championship quarter-final.

She is a completely different operator from the one that filled the custodian’s role as a 16-year-old in her debut season, when the Déise left Croke Park as Intermediate champions in 2015.