White relives fairytale finale

This year’s All-Ireland camogie final, in which Julia White played a game-changing cameo, had the quality of an inspirational sports movie.

First there was Gemma O’Connor’s immense equaliser, made all the more impressive by the fact that she’d been nursing a knee injury since the throw-in.

Then White, another veteran coming back from injury, lanced over a winner. Like Joe Canning’s last-minute point against Tipp the previous month, White scored with three opposing players bearing down on her. On TV at least, it didn’t look like there was room to swing a pencil, much less a hurley.