Masterson: we must finish the job this time

DUBLIN captain Denise Masterson believes the county’s two All-Ireland final defeats earlier this decade will have little bearing on their latest attempt to claim their first title on Sunday.

Twelve of the current Dublin panel featured in one or both of the 2003 and 2004 deciders when the Leinster side was stopped at the final hurdle by Mayo and then Galway. Most of them will start this weekend against Cork.

“Obviously for the girls that were involved in 2003 and 2004 they know that it’s an opportunity that has to be seized,” said Masterson who was a late arrival onto the panel’s fringes in 2004.