Waterford goalkeeper Paudie Hunt celebrated his first ever championship win on Sunday with his son Dáithí and his girlfriend Shannon on the field afterwards.
“He’s only seven or eight months old. First Waterford game, first championship win, can’t
beat it really can you! You have to work around him more than yourself! Usually it’s all about yourself going to games, getting your timing right and getting your food right. There’s a little man there now who takes up a lot of time.”
The Rathgormack netminder made his championship debut back in 2019. “It’s my first
championship win. I’m five or six years on the panel now and you see the crowd on the field
there. Nobody saw it coming at half time. Everyone was probably writing us off and giving
out about us in the stand and we were giving out to ourselves in the dressing room to be fair.
What a second half! Performance levels came up. Handling errors killed us in the first half.
We were playing with a strong wind and one point to show for it, fairly demoralising. We
started to grind it out in the second half, get a few scores, Tipp kicked a couple of wides and
it gave us belief. Unreal feeling to actually win a championship game finally!”
Paudie Hunt spoke to WLR Sport after the game.
