IT WAS ANOTHER glorious dual year for Cork as the Leesiders claimed All-Ireland senior ladies football and camogie glory.
Cork met Galway in League finals in both codes, with the camogie team suffering defeat before the footballers ousted the Westerners following a replay.
You would have got long odds on Cork retaining their All-Ireland camogie crown following a spate of retirements but Paudie Murray plotted a successful path to September glory once again.
Those two great dual stars, Briege Corkery and Rena Buckley, returned to Croke Park later in the month to collect another football crown – their tenth in eleven seasons.
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Galway were crowned Irish Daily Star camogie Division 1 League champions in May.
Cork’s ladies footballers won a third successive Tesco Division 1 title, ousting Galway in an absorbing O’Moore Park replay.
In the Ulster ladies football championship, Davy McLaughlin guided Donegal to an historic first ever provincial senior crown.
Laois won the All-Ireland premier junior camogie crown.
Waterford claimed the intermediate title against Kildare – and the counties would meet again in the intermediate football decider.
Cork retained their senior camogie title…
…before their ladies footballers followed up by defeating Dublin in the TG4 All-Ireland final.
Two goals from Aileen Wall helped Waterford to victory over Kildare in the intermediate football final.
And there was victory for Louth over Scotland in the TG4 All-Ireland ladies junior football final.
Monaghan outfit Donaghmoyne were crowned All-Ireland ladies senior club football champions in December.
And the camogie senior club honours went to Oulart-the-Ballagh from Wexford back in March.
Finally, the 2016 ladies football season will go ahead without this man on the touchline for Cork…Eamonn Ryan presided over 10 All-Ireland wins in 11 years but has taken up a new position alongside Peadar Healy with the county’s senior men’s footballers. We may never see his likes again in the ladies game.
