Wayne Quillinan admits luck played its part as Austin Stacks win 'bonkers' semi-final

'Sometimes we have been on the other side of luck, and we’ll take it when we get it. Those goals came at the right time for us'

Shane O'Callaghan Austin Stacks is pulled by Damien Bourke St Brendans during the Kerry County Senior Football Championship Semi-Final. Picture: Domnick Walsh

Sometimes it’s better to be fortunate than fantastic, and that thought was certainly uppermost in Wayne Quillinan’s mind as the relieved Austin Stacks manager attempted to make sense of an action-packed conclusion to Saturday night’s Kerry County SFC semi-final.

With the ‘Rockies having edged their way over the finishing line in a hugely dramatic penalty shoot-out, having earlier been the grateful beneficiaries of two hugely fortuitous goals, and with a luckless St Brendan’s losing their talisman Diarmuid O’Connor to injury, Quillinan was fully aware that luck had played its part in his side’s victory.