Lyndsey Davey Interview: In the line of fire

If ever a game illustrated what winning takes to Dublin captain Lyndsey Davey, it was last year’s gut-wrenching All-Ireland final defeat to Cork, when maybe some of the Dublin players allowed their eyes drift towards the prize. Now fighting fires off the field, Davey won’t be fazed when Cork turn up the heat tomorrow...

During the summer, shortly before she started training to become a firefighter, Lyndsey Davey and the Dublin team she captains were training out in DCU when they suddenly heard and then saw a teenager shrieking in distress.

While trying to mount the fence to join some buddies for a game of soccer on the adjoining field, he’d managed to impale his arm.