Cork claim sixth straight title amid controversy

Cork 1-7 Dublin 1-6: A merited sixth consecutive All-Ireland senior title for Cork ladies and one that should not be tainted by an umpiring mistake that denied Dublin a first-half point.

Cork showed once more not just why they are queen-pins of the game and Dublin’s bogey team but also the best second-half team in the business as they hit Dublin for 1-4 and restricted them to one point from play and what was, in essence, a consolation penalty goal in the final minute.

Analysing this latest reverse to Cork, Dublin should really look to the amount of scoring opportunities that went a-begging for them. Excluding the controversial Carla Rowe wide, they registered 12 wides and left five short. Such inaccuracy was always going to pay on a changeable autumnal day when scores were at a premium in front of a record 34,445 Croke Park crowd.