Rena Buckley and Briege Corkery in line for new GAA record

Cork are TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football champions for the 10th time in 11 seasons.

A wonderful long range score from Mulcahy restored Cork’s 2 point lead 0-12 to 0-10 with 4 mins to go.

The win means that Rena Buckley and Briege Corkery have now 10 All-Ireland senior football medals and 16 in total that compliments their camogie success.

Both players have featured in each and every one of Cork’s ten final victories over the past eleven years and in that time, they’ve also collected six senior camogie titles.

Cork lost Doireann O’Sullivan to the sin bin in the final minute but it mattered little as Eamonn Ryan’s charges effectively wound down the clock to secure the Brendan Martin Cup yet again.

The teams were level on five occasions in the first-half and, indeed, were deadlocked at 0-5 apiece heading back down the tunnel after an error-strew first period.

Dublin worked hard to limit the Cork opportunities with the Munster side struggling to bread down the massed defence, while they also kicked five wides.

Cork suffered a blow in the 15th minute when Geraldine O’Flynn, matchwinner previous year, went off to be replaced by Róisín Phelan.

Dublin, employing a most negative approach, set-up with two sweepers and at various periods in the opening thirty minutes, there were only two blue shirts in the Cork half of the field – Lyndsey Davey and Niamh McEvoy.

Cork were in merciless form at the back, hellbent on ensuring Dublin wouldn’t find a way through.

Scorers for Cork: V Mulcahy (0-7, 0-6 frees); D O’Sullivan (0-2); C O’Sullivan, R Buckley, E Scally (0-1 each).

Dublin: C Trant; O Carey, M Ní Scanaill, F Hudson; S Furlong, S Finnegan, C Barrett; M Lamb, S Goldrick; N Healy, A Connolly (0-01), C Rowe (0-06, 5f); N McEvoy (0-01), L Davey (0-01), H Noonan.