Heartbreaking for Monaghan but these Rebels are legends

The Ladies Football Championships brought another GAA season of Sundays to a fitting crescendo, continuing the theme of dramatic finishes right to the end.

You could feel nothing but heartbreak for Monaghan as another final slipped through their fingers in the dying minutes and all the cliches in the world about the spectacle of the game will bring them no consolation.

But we’ve come to expect nothing less from this exceptional group of Cork players. They were always going to battle to the final whistle. At the start of the second half, it looked as though the momentum and glory would finally swing Monaghan’s way but the experience and insatiable hunger told for Cork and they made it across the line by a whisker.