Sinéad Finnegan: ‘I visited his grave before the match. I’ll probably do it again.’
If things were different, she could have been out there but Finnegan had taken a break from elite level football for a couple of years following the sudden death of her father, Jarlath, from a heart attack in May 2007. Finnegan did win an Aisling McGing senior B All-Ireland title in 2010 but stepping away from the senior grade for a spell was something she had to do for herself.
Jarlath was the man who first introduced Sinead to football when she was just six. A talented player, Jarlath represented Dublin in the U16, U17, minor and U21 grades, suffering a huge bereavement himself when his own father, aged 50 at the time, passed away.
