The cost of preparing the Cork senior ladies football team in 2019 came to €111k, a 37% increase on the previous year’s figure.

They were selected as the nation’s sports team of the year, and exist on a Ladies Football plateau of their own making. But as this extract from Mary White’s new book ’Relentless’ shows, before there was serial All-Ireland success, there was a Rebel rebellion...

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

The Cork Senior Ladies Football team have been visiting Crumlin and Temple Street Children's Hospitals, ahead of returning to the banks of the Lee tonight as All-Ireland Senior Champions for the eighth time in nine years.