Ladies set to take centre stage

LADIES football takes centre stage in Croke Park this weekend. While they continue to celebrate in the North, the footballers of Dublin and Mayo will meet to decide the last All-Ireland senior title of 2003.

It is the sort of fixture that, if it was the men’s game, would have special supplements and page after page of the great hunger devoted to it. But, Mayo ladies have made a habit of winning the All-Ireland titles that have eluded their male counterparts.

Sunday’s final will be their fifth final in-a-row, and they are going for their fourth title in that period.