Grehan has no intention of walking away from challenges confronting county camogie team

Roscommon junior camogie manager, Mary Grehan, has insisted that she has no intention of walking away from the challenge confronting her and her players in the aftermath of last weekend’s comprehensive defeat by Armagh in their Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Premier Junior semi-final at Kingspan Breffni.

The county’s flagship camogie team were outclassed, 2-17 to 1-8, by a slick Armagh outfit who will now meet Laois in the All-Ireland final.

But Grehan pointed out that she was only in her first year of her managerial stint, and that she, and the players, had learned so much from the season.

“This is our first year. We will learn so much from this. They say that you win or you learn.

“We are very young. Two of our players are 27, and the rest are under 23. But I think these kind of days will stand to them. The intensity and the level we have to play at — we’ll just have to work on that over the winter.

“It’s still the same — the heart and wanting to play for your county. But the commitment is much harder.

“But the dream remains — to win an All-Ireland with these girls. That’s not going anywhere. It’s only our first year, so there’s still time to realise that goal,” she said.