A last gasp goal by full-forward Emma McCroary delivered a dramatic Lidl National Football League Division 1 win for the Donegal ladies on a windswept Saturday afternoon in Dungarvan.

Roll back the carpet by a couple of decades and one group in this year’s TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football championship would have had everyone agog.

Young inter-county players making themselves unavailable for club games was an “inevitable” development, according to Cork minor hurling manager John Considine.

Cork senior star Jenny O’Leary has announced her retirement from the inter-county game.