THREE OF THE BEST

Galway LGFA champions continue to make history

IT WAS a weekend of contrasting emotions for Galway clubs on the national stage, with Croke Park highlighting the agony and ecstasy that can come with competing on All-Ireland final day.

The unstoppable force that are the Kilkerrin-Clonberne ladies footballers once again produced on the big occasion to take a third Dolores Tyrrell Cup back to North Galway.

Roll of honour leader Ballymacarbry, who themselves dominated ladies club football from the late 1980s and 1990s, proved no match. Even if a late scoring flurry put some respectability on the final scoreline.

Driven forward by the Noones, Wards, Divillys and co, Kilkerrin-Clonberne highlighted once again their present peerless status in the club game as they became only the second club ever (after Ballymacarbry, who managed seven in-a-row) to win three All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Club Championship title in as many years.

A devastating inside forward line of Eva Noone, Chloe Miskell and Lynsey Noone ran amok at GAA Headquarters with a strong defensive performance also choking the life out of the opposition at the other end of the field…

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