Saoirse McCarthy on how best friends drove one another to scale the heights

2024 All-Stars team winner Saoirse McCarthy, Cork, with Camogie Association Uachtarán Brian Molloy and Marie Coady, PwC Markets Partner. Pic: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

Saoirse McCarthy missed out on being crowned the PwC GPA Camogie Player of the Year after receiving a second consecutive nomination, but the Cork dynamo’s joy for her teammate, Laura Hayes was as genuine as you could get.

For sure, McCarthy would have liked to have gotten the nod, not least because her family and loved ones were in attendance, but Hayes is a long-time member of that latter category, ever since they first crossed paths more than a decade ago.