“I played county for nearly a decade and didn’t get to play there. When Patterson joined the Antrim senior set up in her late teens, it was far from what she now experiences. People were persuaded to take us and then there maybe wasn’t a buy-in from the best players in the county. Antrim manager Elaine Dowds (©INPHO/Nick Elliott)“I was out in 2019 and 2020 with my first ACL injury and just coming back to county. Dowds then evolved into the manager of the team and Patterson enjoyed the next two seasons as Antrim competed at senior level.