Galway defender Heather Cooney is hopeful that her family will have more All-Ireland silverware this year as both the camogie and hurling outfits take to the field this weekend.
Cooney and her teammates are facing a Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior quarter-final against Dublin in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday, while her brother Conor will be involved with the senior hurlers in their All-Ireland SHC semi-final replay against Clare on Sunday in Semple Stadium.
Both siblings have already brought Celtic Crosses back to their St Thomas' home, with Heather achieving the honour first in 2013 before her brother emulated the feat last year in a thrilling All-Ireland final victory over Waterford.
Cooney would like to be able to bring another All-Ireland success back across the Shannon for her family to savour, but overcoming Dublin on Saturday is her primary focus.
The Galway camogie charges take on the Dubs after finishing second in Group 1 with their only defeat coming against Kilkenny prior to the knockout stages of the competition.
"He has it from last year and I suppose we got it the few years before that," Cooney told RTÉ Sport.
"It'd be amazing to have one from this year but we'll just look at Dublin the next day and not look further than that.
"We're expecting nothing but a massive challenge [from Dublin]. They're going really well this year. We haven't met them this year but we're well aware of the challenge that's ahead of us so we're looking forward to it really."
Galway fell agonisingly short of a place in the All-Ireland decider last year following a three-point defeat to eventual champions Cork at the semi-final stage. The Tribeswomen were trailing by eight points at one stage but launched a late rally to push Cork all the way.
They even managed to keep Cork scoreless for 28 minutes, but it wasn't enough to send them through to the decider in Croke Park.
They have been stung by defeat again this year after they were edged out by Kilkenny in what is their first defeat of the championship so far. Cooney and her comrades know that they must take lessons from that result before the showdown with Dublin at the weekend.
"We've a lot to learn from our defeat to Kilkenny the last day but like that we're not going to dwell on it, we'll learn what we can from it and hopefully put it into play the next day and hopefully it might go our way.
"Losing to Kilkenny was our first loss of the championship. I think you work on learning from it really and putting it into play but definitely it gives you motivation and you're lucky to get another chance with having a loss. We're going to grasp it with two hands and hopefully get the result that we want.
"We're not going to look past Dublin the next day, it's the quarter-final now and we're well aware of that so we'll hopefully work hard and hopefully get over that and we'll see what happens after that."
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