Indomitable Cork defy the odds once more

TG4 LADIES SFC FINA:

This summer, there were even bigger tests but another memorable TG4 All-Ireland SFC campaign concluded with familiar faces on the Hogan Stand podium. Cork, for the eighth time in nine seasons, are champions.

It’s a remarkable record and in that time, they have lost just one game in the All-Ireland series — a 2010 quarter-final defeat to Tyrone. They wobbled in unfamiliar territory against Armagh when sent through the backdoor by two defeats in the Munster championship to Kerry but since then, Eamonn Ryan’s all-conquering Rebels built up an irresistible head of steam.