GALWAY AND KERRY have named their starting teams for Sunday’s All-Ireland senior ladies football final at Croke Park [throw-in 4.15pm, live on TG4].
Galway have made one change, with Emma Reaney replacing Ailish Morrissey in the full-forward line. Kerry joint managers Declan Quill and Darragh Long, meanwhile, have stuck with the same starting fifteen that overcame Armagh in the semi-final.
Ten of their 2023 All-Ireland final starters are included as the Kingdom look to make it third time lucky and lift the Brendan Martin Cup for the first time since 1993.
Galway are hoping to end a 20-year wait for the silverware, having last contested the decider in 2019.
This is the first time the counties will meet in the showpiece.
Galway
1. Dearbhla Gower (Kilmacud Crokes)
2. Maryanne Jordan (Caltra Cuans), 3. Sarah Ní Loingsigh (Naomh Anna Leitir Móir), 4. Kate Geraghty (Tuam Cortoon)
5. Aoife Ní Cheallaigh (Caltra Cuans), 6. Nicola Ward (Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 7. Charlotte Cooney (Claregalway)
8. Mairéad Glynn (Dunmore McHales), 9. Ailbhe Davoren (Kilmacud Crokes — captain)
10. Olivia Divilly ((Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 11. Louise Ward (Kilkerrin-Clonberne), 12. Niamh Divilly (Kilkerrin-Clonberne)
13. Emma Reaney (Caltra Cuans), 14. Leanne Coen (Corofin), 15. Róisín Leonard (Corofin).
Kerry
1. Ciara Butler (Castlegregory)
2. Eilís Lynch (Castleisland Desmonds) 3. Kayleigh Cronin (Dr Crokes) 4. Ciara Murphy (MKL Gaels)
5. Aishling O’Connell (Éire Óg) 6. Deirdre Kearney (Na Gaeil), 7. Aoife Dillane (Austin Stacks)
8. Mary O’Connell (Na Gaeil), 9, Anna Galvin (Southern Gaels)
10. Niamh Carmody (Finuge St Senans — captain), 11. Niamh Ní Chonchúir (Corca Dhuibhne, 12. Síofra O’Shea (Southern Gaels)
13. Danielle O’Leary (Rathmore), 14. Emma Dineen (Glenfesk), 15. Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh (Corca Dhuibhne).
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Fermanagh and Louth, and Leitrim and Tyrone, have also shown their respective hands for the junior [11.45am] and intermediate [1.45pm] finals at HQ beforehand.
Fermanagh: M Maguire; C Clarke, M McGloin, E Keenan; S McQuade (capt.), C Murphy, C Bogue; B Bannon, L Maguire; D Maguire, J Doonan, A McCabe; B Bogue, E Smyth, B Smyth.
Louth: R Lambe Fagan; L Byrne, E Murray, E Hand; H Lambe Sally, Á Breen (capt.), C Nolan; A Halligan, E Byrne; L White, A Russell, C McDonald; N Rice, K Flood, S Matthews.
Leitrim: M Monaghan; E Quigley, C Tyrrell, C Owens; S Reynolds, K Bruen, E Bruen; N Tighe, M Guckian (capt.); O Flynn, L O’Dowd, M Devaney; A Clancy, S Quinn, Á Redican.
Tyrone: A Coyle; J Lyons, J Barrett, E Quinn; C Daly, M Corrigan, C Campbell; A McHugh (capt.), M Mallon; Á Grimes, A Horisk, E.J. Gervin; C McCaffrey, Z Loughran, M Canavan.
Spurs just about deserved the win, new keeper looks decent. Might not be enough of a lead in Anfield though.
@Bert Carolan: kinky was impressive for his Debut. Looks like a good keeper. Pool will have way too much for them at Anfield.
Two poor Teams
@Billy Bell: ur half right.
Liverpool were poor but fair play to Spurs. Considering their injury list they looked decent. A bit of a scare is no harm for Liverpool to wake em up a bit.
@ecrowley ecrowley: so a defeat is actually a good thing Liverpool fans are fantastic.
@paulie: ah look its made its day
@Max: meaningless competition used to give squad player’s a run out
With any luck they will lose the 2nd leg too we have much bigger fish to fry between now and May. Not interested in that trophy in the slightest.
@David Shepherd: by the reactions of pool management and captain don’t think they agree with ya
@David Shepherd: It’s literally one extra game and a great day out in wembley for the club and fans for silverware. Come on man. Liverpool will be taking the 2nd leg 100% seriously.
@David Shepherd: Not at all,when your in it,you want to win it, Liverpool have a decent enough squad to compete on all fronts,it’s two more games, will need to improve and get back to winning ways,hope bentacur is ok.
@Barry Lehane: No point wasting your time this fella twists everything to fit his agenda. The most toxic ‘fan’ of any club by a country mile and its laughable at times. You’re 100% right, not even a Liverpool fan myself but I know any true fan and the players themselves will be mad to win it. None more so than Slot in his first season.
@Dessie: Trophy is a trophy end of the day but I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. Wouldn’t be my personal choice. League title is worth 100 of those cups.
@Barry Lehane: Still couldn’t care less if we lost to Macclesfield town or Spurs tonight ….. Worthless trophy in my opinion.
@Deano74: Couple of key injuries and Liverpool would struggle no point risking it when we have bigger trophies to play for.
@Ultán Corcoran: Can you point to us on the doll where they touched you?
@David Shepherd: It’s more entertaining than the fa cup most of the time , and look at the teams that won it on the way to better things, using it as a stepping stone for future success, Chelsea , Liverpool, City won it first before going on to win the bigger trophies and even United won it and won the Europa same year as far as I remember. It’s not prestigious but I see it as an invaluable competition as teams use it as a springboard for even bigger success.
@Fionn Bohane: I’d be using it to bleed younger players, fringe players see what they are made of. Now if we were struggling in the league I’d take it all day long but considering our current position in the league and champions league I know what I’d be prioritising.
@David Shepherd: ya in the early rounds that’s great , maybe a bit more rotation tonight from Liverpool they could have lost by more. My main point is winning an early cup sets a certain standard going forward for future success , if not this season the following one. (judging on aforementioned clubs experiences with wining this competition) 3 managers in the last 4 looking for their first success with their clubs and all 4 played close to their best .
@Barry Lehane: he aint a liverpool fan allways slagging players
@Ultán Corcoran: 100 percent
BERGVALL has the makings of being proper player
Poor decision with the yellow but I don’t think Liverpool will fret on that much . They must know they weren’t great anyway. Don’t think 1 nil will be enough for spurs at anfield. But who knows what Liverpool they will be playing in a months time.
I followed text commentary on both BBC and RTE. As well as BBC being vastly superior in quality, it really is amazing to read the vast majority of how Irish reporters write, in relation to not writing “English” or “England” in their reports.
I lost count of the number of times he wrote Egyptian, Irish, Uruguayan, Colombian, etc but never once did he mention any player is English. For example, Dominic Solanke, he’s a senior England international yet he writes “the striker”. The other Spurs striker, he told us at least twice he was Swedish.
Why do Irish writers do this?? It is quite disgusting. The Irish are very similar to the English but they can’t admit it!!
@Joseph Fitzgibbon: It’s known as begrudgery and chip on the shoulder syndrome and the Irish and in particular the Dublin media are renowned for it. When Sonia O’Sullivan was having all her success in athletics she was always referred to as the Cobh girl and not the Cork girl by the Dublin based media, the exact same is now happening with the Rowers being referred to as the lads from Skibbereen but Cork is never mentioned and When Roy Keane lifted all those League and FA Cup trophies it was always the Mayfield lad but again Cork was seldom mentioned except of course when he done something negative. We are all guilty of parochialism in some form or another but the Dublin based media are on a different level.
@Joseph Fitzgibbon: Your preoccupation with English players not being designated or described as English is odd to say the least. Perhaps, in the ENGLISH Premier League, you can take it as a given that if players aren’t designated to be from a particular country then, by default, they are English players!
@Joseph Fitzgibbon: what
Ref complete bottle job
@Mark Anthony McNally: wasn’t the reason they lost. Konate had all the time in the world to clear that ball
@Dessie: I agree with you but the ref also bottled a key decision, least it wasn’t a league game and we have another go at them
@Dessie: Nonsense, he was never on the ball. But he did overcommit chasing back for it which let Solanke cut inside…
@Mark Anthony McNally: wasnt a yellow as in line with the rules, the foul did not prevent the counter attack.
It’s all potentially gonna come a Kopper for Liverpool at this rate. Lots of games. Various trophy distractions. Transfer speculation. This will go down to the wire!
Liverpool deserved nothing, but wow, England truly has the most useless officials the game has ever seen. They are making American officials look really honest. With VAR there, and these things continuing to happen. There must be money moving. I’ve never seen it so bad.
@Graham: money from who kavie
@Graham: which VAR decision? They don’t get involved in yellow card offences
@Dave McAuliffe: meant VAR in general.
@Graham: who’s giving corrupt payments to the refs kavie
No worried at all will destroy them next week but id even like newcastle to win i not really bothered
@Max: next month.