Jacqui Hurley swaps the mic for Crokes Maor Uisce bib

Work will be the last thing on RTÉ Sport's Jacqui Hurley's mind as she arrives at Croke Park on Saturday where she will enter through the players and support staff door for the All-Ireland Senior Club Championship final.

Hurley's role at Crokes has evolved. From parent to parent-coach and player, to setting aside her own game and taking on a support-mentor role for the senior women's football team, as well as continuing coaching her children's teams. One thing that hasn't changed is the comfort she feels at Páirc de Burca, where it is a family affair.

"It really has felt like a new home for us, that's been the best part of it... me and my husband are not from Dublin, this is not where we grew up, but actually finding a home away from home has been really lovely," Hurley told RTÉ Sport.

When asked what makes Kilmacud Crokes special, she replied: "There is a huge amount of country influences.

"Whether it's a lot of the players or their parents are from the country, or situations like us, where you had two country parents who moved up and had children.

"It's a really lovely welcoming environment that and, as I always flagged, you need a few country bumpkins to help you keep it on the straight and narrow," jokes Hurley.

This may be conflicting with assumptions about the massive South Dublin GAA institution, that has almost 5000 individual members.

Saturday's final will be the first All-Ireland for the women's side of the club, something Hurley feels is forgotten.

"People have to remember this is the first ever All-Ireland final for this club... there's a lot of really excited people who are just bursting for the opportunity to get to Croke Park and I think sometimes that is forgotten about in the madness of it all," explains Hurley.