Cork's Abbie O'Mahony embracing rise & rise of Glanmire

Just over five years on from their last overseas fixture, Abbie O'Mahony and the Glanmire ladies footballers once again find themselves on English soil this weekend.

Following their recent triumphs in the Cork and Munster second-tier finals, the Riverstown outfit booked their place in the quarter-final of the currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Intermediate Club Championship.

Providing opposition to the Leesiders in the last eight of the national competition at McGovern Park, Ruislip this afternoon [throw-in 12pm] are London’s Tir Chonaill Gaels - winners of the All-Britain Intermediate Football title at the expense of Dunedin Connollys from Edinburgh earlier this month.

Coincidentally, the venue for that game, Páirc na hÉireann in Birmingham, was also where Glanmire took on the Coventry-based Roger Casements in an All-Ireland junior championship quarter-final on 3 November, 2018.

"We’re all looking forward to it now, to be fair," said O'Mahony.

"We got to go to Coventry a couple of years back. I feel like it’s a good bonding opportunity and to play the match as well, it’s great to have gotten this far with it. We don’t know too much about them [Tir Chonaill Gaels]. We’re trying to focus as much on ourselves as possible as well.

"We’re definitely going to give it our all and hopefully come out with good results. I remember the Coventry team back in 2018, they were great athletes. Obviously at this stage of the competition there’s no match that is going to come easy.

"I’ve never been to London anyway and I’d say a good few of the girls can say the same. It’ll be great. We know that the focus is on the game and to obviously enjoy whatever comes our way."

"We're very grateful for all the support we’ve been getting. It has been