Sarah Healy hopes for more pleasant Croke Park trip after 'eerie' 2020 experience 

'It was dark and it was cold and there was nobody there. People say Croke Park is a lonely place when you lose but it’s worse when you lose and there’s nobody there'

Miriam Walsh of Kilkenny and Sarah Healy of Galway during the launch of the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League final. Picture: Sam Barnes

When Sarah Healy got her hands on the Littlewoods Ireland camogie league trophy in March of 2019, she was still a Leaving Cert student. Six months later, the teenage Galway goalkeeper shut Kilkenny out again at Croke Park in front of nearly 25,000 to add the All-Ireland and finished the season as an All-Star.

“That whole year was like a dream come true,” recalled Healy who has endured a very different 18 months or so since.