There are few sweeter feelings than bringing glory to your club, but for Philip Wall, the emotions after Kilbrittain's All-Ireland club JHC title victory last weekend were intensified by a brotherly bond.
At the full-time whistle, when Sligo's Easkey had been beaten by the west Corkmen, captain Philip sought out his brother Jamie, a renowned coach who was on punditry duty for the match with TG4.
Their embrace was caught by the on-pitch photographers to create a special sporting image.
"It's still a bit of a fever dream, to be honest," Philip Wall told RTÉ's Inside Sport, speaking from the house of his teammate and player of the match Ronan Crowley as the rest of the panel continued the celebrations in a nearby pub.
"As you can tell by my voice, we've had a fantastic time. It's incredibly special.
"I saw (Jamie). I knew obviously he was doing the game with TG4 and I saw him and yeah, it was like, I mean, there wasn't really a whole lot I said. It was very, very emotional.
"He coached us for years, coached me for six or seven years, I'd say. I had him in Mary Immaculate College, I had him in the Under-21s, I had him with Kilbrittain. Saturday was as much for him as it was for us.
"It's a moment that you don't even dream of because you don't even think that it's a possibility. You don't even think that it's going to be in your list of things that can happen. It's incredibly emotional, but it was incredibly fulfilling as well."
The Walls are a family of high achievers. Philip's twin sister Kate made it to the All-Ireland camogie decider with St Finbarr's but suffered an agonising replay defeat to Athenry.
"She's a proper top-class athlete," added Wall. "She has that mindset. I was chatting to her last night and she was so happy that we got it. Of course, she was disappointed.
"You're not a sports person if you're not disappointed, you want it to be you. But my girlfriend told me that Kate just burst out in tears. I think everyone was in tears. I think the whole Kilbriton parish was - there was a river!
"We're all we're very close. Now, I'll mention my other sister, Ellen, as well, who gives out to me, she's been left out of the of the celebrations of the last few hours. But yeah, we're all very close to our family."
Wall delivered an emotional speech in Croke Park that touched on the heartbreaks and tragedies the area has suffered; the loss of Anne Enright and Oisin Gillain - who was only 18 when he passed away - fuelled and inspired the group throughout their triumphant run.
"I spoke a lot about Oisín and knowing Oisín, he wouldn't he wouldn't want to be the centre of attention a lot," said Wall.
"But he is the centre of attention in that he's the story. You know, a lot of these things have storylines. And Oisín is the story. I spoke in an interview today about the best thing about this year and being successful is that Oisín is forever immortalised with this.
"You know, 2025, everyone will know Oisín. No matter how long after we are gone, Oisín will be forever the story."
Pride in themselves and pride in each other, but above all there's the unique feeling of doing it for the parish.
Wall took the chance to share just what it means to represent their part of the country with such distinction.
"I was trying to describe the Wild Atlantic way," he said in further reference to his speech. "I was trying to describe our beaches. I was doing an ad! We're an incredibly tightknit community as a whole. Hurling is the main show in town here.
"West Cork is an area that we all love. We adore it. And to bring an All-Ireland back to not Kilbritain, just west Cork in general... it's like it's like a county within a county.
"I remember when we went to college, everyone's like, 'why are they saying west Cork, not Cork? We don't care that you're from west Cork'. But yeah, it's incredibly special. We love the area and we're very proud."
