Royals’ style can be exciting - O’Sullivan

Even Meath manager Eamonn Murray quipped this week ahead of Sunday’s final that opponents Kerry ‘play pure football, no auld defensive system like us!’

Meath’s Niamh O’Sullivan: “All of us can score.” ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

Even after beating Meath to retain the Leinster title back in May, Dublin manager Mick Bohan looked a little exasperated.

Bohan, one of the game’s great innovators and Dublin’s skills coach for a period during the Jim Gavin era, described playing Meath as ‘a little bit of a game of chess which is frustrating at times’.