Dicksboro's Aoife Prendergast described the Kilkenny club's maiden All-Ireland success as more than a dream come true.
She put in a Player of the Match display on Sunday at Croke Park to overcome reigning champions Sarsfields of Galway and help her side to silverware in the AIB Camogie Club decider.
Prendergast, who scored nine points with seven coming from frees, told RTÉ Sport that they had fulfilled a lifelong dream by bringing national and provincial glory to their club for the first time.
"It's beyond a dream. When you're a young girl growing up, you dream of winning senior county finals and we're after winning a Leinster and an All-Ireland this year," said the player, who has experienced All-Ireland glory previously on the inter-county stage with Kilkenny.
"It's a credit to the girls out there. Unbelievable. I get the privilege to take the frees and I suppose that adds to my tally but it's the girls out on the field, they're the ones who win the frees. I just get to put them over the bar.
"But look, it's unbelievable. We drove on as a team. We're not a team of individuals. Every player on the pitch could have got (the Player of the Match award) on the day and that's the way we were all year and it stood to us."
On the special nature of winning an All-Ireland medal for club, Prendergast added: "Just looking down at my jersey and seeing that it's my club jersey, it's a great honour to play for your county but playing for your club at Croke Park, it's beyond a dream and I actually still think I'm asleep or something. It's unbelievable."
For attacking veteran Orla Hanrick, one of the side's scorers on the day, the triumph was particularly special as she remembers lining out for the side in junior championship action.
"I’m really telling my age now, I was on the team when we were junior so I’m playing a long, long time.
"This is just beyond what we could ever dream of. I wrote a little text into the players’ group last night and I just said 'this is the match we have been dreaming of since we first picked up a hurl at the age of four or five.’
"Year in, year out we’re watching this on telly at home, feet up on the couch – this year we got to be on the screen, this year we got to cross over the white line at Croke Park and just gave it our all.
"I can believe we’re All-Ireland champions because we’re that good but, my God, we’re living the dream right here, right now."
Captain Jenny Clifford had the privilege of lifting the Bill & Agnes Carroll Cup aloft and echoed her team-mate's sense of waiting for the reality of success to sink in.
"If I didn't have my speech, I'd be speechless. It's just an absolute honour, especially celebrating with my two sisters there today and having my childhood best friends with me. It's just something I'm never going to forget," she said.
