How Kildare ladies football reached breaking point

Intermediate All-Ireland champions Kildare are still counting the cost of a terminal divide across the organisation.

Kildare players celebrates after winning the 2023 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Intermediate Football Championship Final match between Clare and Kildare at Croke Park.

Sponsorship, marketing and money are at the centre of one of the most extraordinary breakups in ladies Gaelic football, following a week of mass resignations and deep recriminations.

Intermediate All-Ireland champions Kildare are still counting the cost of a divide across the organisation after all 11 members of the county’s LGFA Executive stood down last Wednesday.