Keenan left speechless after late Louth victory
Paddy Keenan shared his thoughts immediately after Louth’s All-Ireland SFC win against the Orchard County
Louth GAA 2010 All-Star, Paddy Keenan, said he was left speechless after Sam Mulroy's last-gasp goal secured a dramatic one-point win over Armagh at Inniskeen on Sunday last.
Speaking on the pitch after the final whistle as celebrations erupted around him, Keenan could hardly believe what he had witnessed.
He said: “I’m speechless, absolutely unbelievable and as a Louth player, Louth fan, Louth supporter, you'd unfortunately be on the wrong side of those sorts of results where you gave away a goal in the last couple of minutes or whatever.
“To win one, the last kick of the game, I didn't need to worry and get the shot off there the way it was looking. I think everybody was screaming just shoot, just somebody shoot.
“I think that was the fifth shot we dropped short in the second half and it was the only one we got a bit of a hand on it or whatever so I still don't know who scored it, but we don't really care, it doesn't matter, we won it.”
Keenan also praised the progress made by the current Louth team and the belief shown throughout so far in their championship campaign.
“The credit I give those players, where they've come the last seven years or whatever it is.
“They were in that game right from the very start, they recovered from a goal, a sloppy goal in the first half, a goal in the start of the second half, they kept themselves in the game.
“Even the knockback of that first Dublin game in the Leinster semi-final, the way they recovered, there's never been a team that does that.
“They've taken so many knockbacks and keep coming back, coming back and they're rightly competing at the top end of the championship.
“Armagh are probably one, two, three top teams in the country and to take them down, a wee bit of luck at the end, but it wasn't luck the whole way through.
“They deserve to be in the game the whole way through and it's an unbelievable credit to the team, the management.
“Everybody involved in the whole thing, it's absolutely unbelievable what they've done, it really is.”