Connaire Mackin Armagh All-Ireland winning homecoming party

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Connaire Mackin spoke to us at Armagh's All-Ireland winning homecoming party this evening.

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00:00First of all, congratulations, you've come this far in 24 hours.

00:04Ah, not really, no.

00:07It's just something that comes over you.

00:10I can't explain.

00:12That euphoria that everyone talks about, it's just undescribable.

00:17How did you feel at that final lesson?

00:20Well, I was on the thing and I seen Ciarán.

00:23The first thing I seen was Ciarán and I thought, I've done it, I've done it.

00:26I just keep on saying I've done it, I've done it.

00:29How good was it to have your brother?

00:31Everyone didn't think we could do it, including Ronan.

00:33Ronan didn't think we could do it.

00:35How good was it to have your brother and your mom here?

00:37Oh, class. Just, all my little kids.

00:40Babies are obviously before him, but to get the both of us on it,

00:45and then obviously the family connections with the girls teams and all that crap too,

00:50it was wonderful.

00:52You've been soldiering with Armada, what was your first year? 2018, was it?

00:552018 was my first year.

00:57You mentioned these matches, defeats, heartbreaks, does this make it all worthwhile?

01:01Yeah, definitely.

01:03It's like, I was probably in every situation you can think of.

01:08I was like, I was number probably 32 in the LBD.

01:14I was like, I actually got tried out in nets at one stage,

01:18and I was just, every position you could think of, I was probably in it.

01:23Just on the whole team, I'd say everyone has been there on the whole team.

01:29The small gap was one thing, obviously, that was being touched on.

01:33Obviously, on the media.

01:37How did you set up the game? It was sort of a cagey first half game,

01:41and the cage goal was obviously the key moment.

01:43How are you reflecting the game?

01:45It's hard to, I haven't really washed it back yet, obviously,

01:49but I thought it was cagey.

01:52We gave them three scores in a row, I think, from one of the kick-offs.

02:00No, we gave two scores with threes, I think.

02:04We gave them three scores in a row, basically.

02:07It was a bit of a blur.

02:10We just kept on coming back, we just kept coming back.

02:13You see them in the second half, they got two on the bounce in the second half,

02:17and we just kept coming back.

02:20It's a bit of a blur, we can't really remember much of the game, it's just sort of...

02:23Oh yeah, every game's a gut thing, every game's a gut thing.

02:26No matter what game it is, everything's a blur, obviously.

02:30Listen, I'd like to go and enjoy a celebration.

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