Cahalane: Spirit and freshness sealed back to back titles for Cork

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Cork captain Molly Lynch and vice caprtain Meabh Cahalane raise the O'Duffy cup after defeating Galway in the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie final at Croke Park Picture; Eddie O'Hare

Cork vice-captain Méabh Cahalane’s All-Ireland final lasted just over 15 minutes but as her manager Ger Manley mentioned afterwards it was a triumph that she played at all such was the hamstring tear she suffered in June.

“She got back in six weeks with the injury she had,” smiled Manley. “That’s the spirit that we’ve shown all year really, they just worked so hard. We’ve put so much into this, we started at the start of the year very late, purposely to plan for this: this was our aim, to get back, and we got back.”