Ireland hero Niamh Fahey on teenage Galway glory and what a second ladies title would mean

Before Niamh Fahey was a central cog in the first Irish women’s football team to reach the World Cup, she was the child cog in the only Galway team to lift the Brendan Martin Cup.

TRIBAL INSTINCTS: Republic of Ireland's Niamh Fahey poses with a Galway flag. Pic Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

For the second weekend in succession, Niamh Fahey finds herself homeward bound.

There’s no Irish camp that has the Liverpool-based centre-back returning to the departures lounge and across the Irish Sea. There is instead more maroon to be followed.