Paula Hynes: The championship of dreams - and it's not the hurling

Sponsors Volac, FBD agrinet, along with IHA chief executive Laurence Feeny, judge Torben Melbaum, Sizzler Rompen Rouge Red ET, Becky, and the Hynes family and IHFA president, Mary Rafferty. Picture: Maria Kelly Photography
Life certainly is a rollercoaster and we always try to do our best and ride the ups and downs. It was all systems go in preparing for the YMA National Finals.Â
However, I also had a hospital appointment looming, which weighed heavily on both my shoulders and Pete's. I spent the Saturday of the All-Ireland hurling final in the Mater Private in Cork for a procedure; the staff, nurses and consultants in there are phenomenal, and thankfully, a huge weight was lifted from our shoulders.