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Dicksboro's All-Ireland glory 'beyond a dream' - Aoife Prendergast

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Dicksboro's Aoife Prendergast described the Kilkenny club's maiden All-Ireland success as more than a dream come true.She put in a Player of the Match display on Sunday at Croke Park to overcome reigning champions Sarsfields of Galway and help her side to silverware in the AIB Camogie Club decider.Prendergast, who scored nine points with seven coming from frees, told RTÉ Sport that they had fulfilled a lifelong dream by bringing national and provincial glory to their club for the first time."It's beyond a dream.

When you're a young girl growing up, you dream of winning senior county finals and we're after winning a Leinster and an All-Ireland this year," said the player, who has experienced All-Ireland glory previously on the inter-county stage with Kilkenny."It's a credit to the girls out there.

Unbelievable. I get the privilege to take the frees and I suppose that adds to my tally but it's the girls out on the field, they're the ones who win the frees.

I just get to put them over the bar."But look, it's unbelievable. We drove on as a team. We're not a team of individuals. Every player on the pitch could have got (the Player of the Match award) on the day and that's the way we were all year and it stood to us."On the special nature of winning an All-Ireland medal for club, Prendergast added: "Just looking down at my jersey and seeing that it's my club jersey, it's a great honour to play for your county but playing for your club at Croke Park, it's beyond a dream and I actually still think I'm asleep or something.

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