Tuesday Blue

Tuesday is Blues Day and we have a stunning achievement to celebrate this week. 17-year-old striker Eva O’Gorman is the Tuesday Blue after a fantastic four-goal feat in the most dramatic of circumstances on Sunday.

I’ll be honest - I thought the FAI Connect app was broken when it gave Eva goals after 89, 89 and 93 minutes to win the game! It looked like one goal had been credited three times, but no, she really did go on a late rampage to secure a vital win for Waterford in the Women’s Development League.

CK United led 2-1 with less than twenty minutes left to play in the baking heat at the RSC on Sunday afternoon. O’Gorman, from Adamstown in Wexford, equalised in the 73rd minute with a good finish at the back post from a corner delivered by Emma Bibby. It was still level inside the final minute of regulation time and the Blues would have been disappointed to only take a point from a home game. But that’s when Eva went up a gear. 

First, she got on to an excellent cross from the right by Rachael Duff and struck low to the corner of the goal to give Waterford the lead. And, less than sixty seconds later, she repeated the trick with a virtual carbon copy - another great cross from the right by Duff with O’Gorman smashing low to the corner once more to wrap up the win. But she still wasn’t done and scored her fourth deep into stoppage time when she collected a glorious through ball from Ruby Norris and finished with a flourish to put an exclamation mark on what had seemed a very unlikely 5-2 win for Brendan White’s team.

Eva, who is heading into her Leaving Cert year at St Mary’s in New Ross, began playing football with Adamstown aged six. She had a unique experience two years ago when she was invited by Bayern Munich to a four-day training camp at the Allianz Arena. Eva spent the 2024 season with CK United before moving to the Blues for 2025 - scoring a hat-trick against her old club on her debut. She was with the Under-17s last season, but has stepped up to the Under-23s for 2026.

It’s not often in the entire history of the Blues that anyone has scored four goals in a match at any level so Eva deserves to be highlighted this week. If she can keep up that kind of form, we might see her involved with the first team in the Women’s Premier Division before too long.