"I'm not sure I can articulate well enough how I'm feeling," McCarthy said.
"I'm absolutely thrilled by our achievements. I'm very proud of the players, they've been brilliant all season long.
"We have kept calm when we lost a couple, we kept fairly sedate when we have won seven on the bounce twice and tried to manage that equilibrium all the way through and we have managed to do it.
"I thought today the players were brilliant considering what we knew was at stake and when everything was going on they kept their nerve and got their just desserts."
"It doesn't register, it doesn't sink in. It's not something you can really savour, you just enjoy the high of it for the moment and savour it when I wake up on Sunday."