Marguerita looking to lower Déise colours

Waterford as we all know will be appearing in their third successive All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie semi final this weekend.

Since winning the Junior Final in 2011, Waterford have clashed with Galway in the last two years in the latter stages of the championship, and on both occasions victory has gone to the Tribes-Ladies.

Having lost the last two semi finals, I am sure everybody would think that everyone with any Waterford blood in them would love to see Waterford return to Croke Park this year, three years after the side last appeared at GAA head quarters on All-Ireland Camogie Final Day.

This may come as a surprise to many, but there is at least one Waterford person that will not be rooting for Waterford for when they take on Limerick in Saturday’s semi Final at Dr Cullen Park in Carlow.

It may come as a shock to some as to why one Waterford person will not be willing Waterford to win, but Niall O’Donnell’s charges we to win, the I am sure that this same person will be one of the first to make their way to the Waterford players to congratulate them and to wish them well for their All-Ireland Place.

There is of course one very good reason as to why one person will be hoping that Waterford will not win.

Included in the Limerick panel that are set to face Waterford will be Marguerita McCarthy.

To most Marguerita’s name will mean nothing.

Marguerita comes from a well known family in the West Waterford Parish of Modeligo.

She has played Ladies Football for the Na Déise Club in Touraneena and Modeligo from a young age, starting off playing under 14 back in the late 90’s while still underage for a number of years to follow.

With the past few years, Marguerita has spent a lot of time in Limerick and began to play Camogie and joined the Ahane Club in 2011.

She straight away began to show the same promise as she did many years earlier when she began to play football and in recent times she began to attract the attention of the Limerick Intermediate Management team.

So far, 2014 has been a good year for Marguerita who earlier this year was part of the Limerick panel that tied with Clare and Galway for second spot in one group in Division one of the National League, loosing out on a semi final spot after the treaty side lost out to the same two counties in a series of play offs.

In the championship, playing against what some would say (I would argue differently) playing against lesser teams than Limerick had played in the league; she was once again involved with the side who recorded Kildare, Antrim, Galway and Tipperary which has set up this weekend’s semi final.

Marguerita while her she has left the county she was brought up in, she remains a huge Waterford supporter.

However, that support for Waterford will be put one side for little over an hour from 1-45pm on Saturday afternoon, as she and her team mates look to return to Croke Park for the second year in a row, and make up for last years disappointment when they lost to Galway.

But should that bid fail, and it is Waterford that emerge winners, I am sure nobody will be more delighted for Waterford than Marguerita.