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Published 18:26 26 Sept 2017 BST
"It is (everything I thought it’d be) I was mindful, the last few years I’d be seeing lads and you’d always see lads saying they rarely enjoyed it, I think I saw Jackie Tyrell saying in his book he didn’t really enjoy being captain after the game (because) he missed a lot but I just kind of said I’d take it all in if I could enjoy it and I have, definitely," Burke said. "I have a smile on my face every morning going to work."
Burke also revealed the intricacies of writing an All-Ireland speech and when he wrote it:
"I wrote it three days after the Tipperary game. Well, I got help off of my mother," Burke admitted.
"Sure, I had one done for the Leinster final and one for the league and put everything together and did a few more bits It was just bullet points really gave it to the kit man and the mother as well.
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