Michaela sings national anthem in Croke Park at Camogie final

Mullingar performer Michaela Mooney sang Amhrán na bhFiann in Croke Park before this year’s All-Ireland Senior Camogie Final, on Sunday.

Michaela is a veteran of the town’s famed music scene and has been performing at venues Mullingar and further afield for more than a decade.

This year’s performance at the GAA headquarters will go down in history, though, as it was President Michael D Higgins’s last appearance at Croke Park as president.

Along with that, it isn’t Michaela’s first performance on Croke Park’s hallowed soil; she has performed there twice before. In 2014, Michaela performed at both the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final and the All-Ireland Ladies Football Final.

Speaking to the Westmeath Examiner on Monday, Michaela said: “If they asked you to do it every week, you would, the atmosphere is unbelievable, and people are so kind.

“Singing the national anthem is an experience in itself; it’s something that any singer would love to do, but singing it in the GAA headquarters is something special.”

Anywhere she performs, Michaela attracts a crowd. She said: “I brought a fanclub with me, I had mam, dad, my brother, my husband, my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and father-in-law.

“So there was a clatter of us up at it and they were great support, but they were more nervous than I was.”