"Lorcan O'Toole remembers a particular game during Dannah O'Brien's ladies football career for St Anne's in Carlow where he and his selectors "were looking at each other on the sideline saying, how did she even come up with that?""
"St Anne's were bidding to win their first minor championship final but faced a gale-force wind in the second half of a game that was played in the depths of winter."
"It was one of those days when kicking points against the elements was close to impossible with some of their earlier efforts "being blown to the corner flag"."
Lorcan O'Toole recalled a particular game from Dannah O'Brien's ladies football career with St Anne's in Carlow where he and his selectors were stunned by one of her plays. St Anne's contested their first minor championship final in conditions described as the depths of winter. The second half featured a gale-force wind that made kicking points against the elements nearly impossible. Several earlier scoring attempts were literally blown off course, "being blown to the corner flag". O'Toole regarded coaching O'Brien as a privilege, emphasizing her inventiveness and match-changing moments.
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