Ladies football: Moriarty rekindles Armagh love affair

When Armagh’s Meabh Moriarty played in her first TG4 All-Ireland Junior final in 2005, there were only 20,706 at Croke Park. A year after that win over Sligo, Armagh reached their first ever senior decider but lost to a Cork side embarking on an era of dominance.

The attendance that day was 25,665 but 12 years later, that number had nearly doubled when Dublin beat Cork last September, in front of 50,141 spectators. Clann Éireann defender Moriarty has seen Ladies Football grow exponentially during her career, and just before her 34th birthday, she has never been so in love with the game.