What a year it was for Cork ladies football star Valerie Mulcahy

There won’t be another year like 2015 for Valerie Mulcahy. A 10th All-Ireland with Cork, an active role in historic legislation on marriage equality, her own nuptials and a tearful end of an outrageously successful union with Eamon Ryan. Beat that, 2016.

VALERIE Mulcahy leans forward from the purple armchair, a film reel of the past 12 months whirring through her mind.

Momentary silence.