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Dublin GAA star Noëlle Healy is back at work at St James’s Hospital, just one day after claiming her fourth consecutive All-Ireland football title.
Octor Healy (29) has returned to work as an anesthesiologist after the Dublin women’s team made history at Croke Park with an impressive victory over Cork.
“We would not have been in the core phase any more than our medical and surgical colleagues at the height of the pandemic in March and April,” he told Morning Ireland today.
“It is a very fulfilling job, and I am fortunate to have some family members, cousins and a sister, who also work in the medical profession. It’s a great job; It’s one that I love
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December 20, 2020; Dublin players, left to right, Sarah McCaffrey, Leah Caffrey and Noelle Healy celebrate after the final match of the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship between Cork and Dublin at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach / Sportsfile
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“It’s a great distraction from soccer and soccer is a great distraction.”
Yesterday’s final turned out to be a tight one, with Cork gaining an early lead. But in the end it was the Dubs who came back fighting with the final score: Dublin 1-10 and Cork 1-5.
Healy said she feared they would never make it to the end due to the pandemic.
“It’s a week we were worried would never come this year, when we were separated and trying to train separately in April and May,” he said. “So [I was] Delighted to be able to participate in it yesterday.
“Being on the right side of an incredible game was really satisfying.”
The team spent many months training without being sure the final would happen, but Healy said they managed to keep morale high regardless.
“It would be easy to let their standards slip or sit back and not be as motivated and move on, but the merit of the girls is that many of them came back after the lockdown in phenomenal shape and worked very hard to improve their skills,” he said . .
“Jennifer Dunne and Carla Rowe absolutely flew back, so hungry for it, so I guess from that point of view you couldn’t help but get inspired and move on.”
Of course, current circumstances prevent the team from celebrating as it would have in previous years, but they still managed to mark the occasion.
“We just got home to our families, which was really lovely,” she said.
“It was really disappointing, there are a lot of us who have been playing together since we were 13/14, we know each other’s parents very well, and their families mean a lot to us.”
“We know how much this means to our families. They are the ones who have been to the games, on cold days when there are only 50 or 100 people. Not being able to see them and celebrate afterwards was difficult ”.
“When it is safe to do so, we will have a proper celebration,” he added.
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