The county’s intermediate title means they will contest 2025 senior championship from Division Four
Leitrim's Ailbhe Clancy scores her side's third goal, a penalty, during the All-Ireland Ladies Football Intermediate Championship final against Tyrone at Croke Park. Photograph: Seb Daly/Sportsfilefootball. The women footballers won the intermediate All-Ireland two weeks ago and leading forward Ailbhe Clancy was named PwC GPA Player of the Month for August.
It capped a remarkable year for the team, who failed to get promotion from Division Four of the league, but who battled through the championship to defeat in the final a Tyrone side on their way to Division One next season.Nicola Ward: ‘Some day we will get there and Kerry are an example’ “We didn’t get out of Division Four, lost the semi-final and that was a really tough week because promotion had been one of our goals at the start of the year. It almost helped us, though, because we sat down the Wednesday after the league loss against Limerick and everyone spoke.
It was a formidable achievement for the team, which has a skeleton panel of 25 players – something manager Jonny Garrity, a Fintona man who was up against his own county in the final, has said worked in their favour despite the obvious injury risks. There is probably nothing harder in championship than having to face a team you have narrowly beaten for a second time within a few weeks.
“Something similar happened against Wexford and a lot of our games have been close calls so I had complete confidence.”
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