Lucy Power's packed club season reaches semi-finals stage

The next seven days are set to be hectic ones in the life of Westmeath footballer Lucy Power as she aims to maintain her challenge for a double club championship success within the Lake County.

This weekend, the primary school teacher is set to feature for Clonkill in their Westmeath Camogie Senior A Championship semi-final clash against Drumraney in Raharney.

Fast-forward to next Saturday and Power will then find herself donning the colours of The Downs in their penultimate round encounter against St Loman’s in the Village Barn Senior Football Championship.

Before advancing to the final four of the latter competition, The Downs had to negotiate no fewer than seven round-robin games in as many weeks. All bar two of these fixtures took place on a Thursday evening, as part of an arrangement that was designed to allow dual club stars like Power to have extra rest periods in between games.

This still led to her playing a grand total of 11 games in just seven weeks, but given how much she enjoys lining out for both teams, it is something Power was more than happy to do.

"I had a lot of football games on Thursday and I would have had to play a round of championship camogie then on the Sunday as well. It’s to facilitate dual players to a certain point. You’ve two days recovery in between games," Power explained.

"I think that is why they’re half on Thursdays as well with the way they want you to have seven games in the group championship. I suppose if you were to have seven games and then look at running a camogie senior championship alongside that, you’d be a long time running off championships. If you were to go week in, week out.

"The Thursdays were grand, but there’s a lot to be said for a Saturday game as well. It was nice at the