Staunton: self-belief drove us to title

CARNACON’S self-belief was the key to their second consecutive victory over East Cork side Inch Rovers in the VHI Healthcare Ladies Football All-Ireland Senior Club Championship decider, according to Mayo star Cora Staunton, who played a starring role by scoring all of their 11 points in Sunday’s final in Tullamore.

“We have a great bunch of girls and they have this never-say-die attitude,’’ she commented. “We are not champions for nothing!’’

Commenting that the goal scored by Inch Rovers 25 seconds into the second half could have killed off any team, she felt that while they might have been lucky with their first goal, it enabled them to drive on. “We knew the wind was strong and we had been terrible in the first half. We made a lot of mistakes. Their goal after half-time was their only (other) score and that helped us.”