Portarlington secured their third consecutive county title after a difficult run of games before Sunday.
Portarlington's Colm Murphy believes their three consecutive one-point victories in a row were taken as positive signs.
Port were comfortable winners over O'Dempsey's, turning a 12 point to 2 lead at half time into a final score line of 2-13 to 0-8 points.
Murphy was the game's top scorer with 1-4, as well as setting up the contest's only other goal.
He tells Pat O'Sullivan hard games in the build up helped them deliver on Sunday:
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