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work and play, but she loves being busy and then having the stress relief that comes with the endorphins released in a good training session. It helps when she works with some of the top- class coaches Offaly has to offer, and she has special praise for Colin Kenny, who is just 22. Between the quality management team and the superb squad they have to pick from, the outcome was superb. "It is unreal to be All-Ireland champions," said McEvoy. "It is only starting to sink in now. It has been a few weeks and the first week we were celebrating. You are in a whirlwind. We didn't realise. "We are only looking back now. The amount of local clubs that showed support. The people who would say it now, who would have never mentioned football before, and probably didn't know you played. "We came into Doon when we were coming home from Cavan that night. We have a few girls from that club playing with us as well, there were bonfires and everything there that night. "Everyone was just in shock. There were girls crying and everything. Everyone was over the moon with the support we were getting." Naomh Ciaran is a west Offaly club and it accounts for Doon, Shannonbridge and Ferbane. But there are also players from the neighbouring Pullough and Ballycumber. And they haven't stopped celebrating since that faithful Saturday night. It's been well worth the journey. "We probably had the dream but yet you don't really think it is going to happen," said McEvoy. "We set out at the start of the year with the goal of winning an All-Ireland. We had won five Offalys in a row, we had won a Leinster a few years back. We knew we were a good side. "What used to kill us was our fitness. We had the football but teams would out-run us. This year we had an amazing management team and we just knuckled down. "We were training three nights at the club, and then we did two running sessions on our own each week from the beginning of May. We worked hard for the last five or six months and we were doing video analysis as well on top of that. "We definitely had the dream of winning it but you don't think you are going to until you are in an All-Ireland final and you are that close to it." Above: Ellee McEvoy during the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Final Below: Ellee McEvoy of Naomh Ciaran in action against Lucy Wallace of Naomh Pól