Pointing the way to victory – the elation of scoring the county final winner  

Tom Clancy is more used to recording county final drama as a well-known GAA journalist - this time however, he wrote himself into local history with his adopted club.

My number one: Tom with fiancé Lisa, now an adopted Knockainey supporter.

As a freelance reporter, mainly on the GAA beat, you end up in a myriad of places. In 2025 alone, I’ve listened first hand to John Kiely after Munster final heartbreak, witnessed a record breaking 4-12 from James Naughton, and ended up with a back-page story for the first time, as Dublin shocked Limerick.

As close as I have been to the action in recent years, there is always a remove that sees me on the outside. I have been to hundreds of games in the last eight or nine seasons as a reporter, but there is nothing like being a player.