Seventh heaven for super Rebels

Cork 0-16 Kerry 0-07

“Kerry’s success in Ladies Football resembles Tennyson’s Brook,” wrote the recently-departed man from Castleisland in his Evening Press column back in November of 1990, “it seems set to go on forever.”

The women from the Kingdom had claimed their ninth successive senior All-Ireland earlier that year but little could Houlihan have known that the run was already at an end and — one more title in 1993 aside – and the well has been dry ever since.