Hannah Tyrrell scored a second-half penalty at Croke Park where Dublin secured a ninth consecutive TG4 Leinster SFC title with a narrow triumph over reigning All-Ireland champions Meath.
Dublin's Hannah Tyrrell celebrates after the game. Image: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO Dublin's Hannah Tyrrell celebrates after the game. Image: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO Dublin 1-7HANNAH TYRRELL scored a second-half penalty at Croke Park where Dublin secured a ninth consecutive TG4 Leinster SFC title with a narrow triumph over reigning All-Ireland champions Meath.
After a cagey start, Nicole Owens – a late addition to Dublin’s starting line-up – opened the scoring with a ninth-minute point. Meath’s defensive set-up ensured that clear-cut scoring opportunities were initially at a premium for their opponents, but Eamonn Murray’s team also took a while to settle.
It took Meath all of 29 minutes to get up and running but even though Aoibheann Leahy found the target from close range, Tyrrell’s first point of the day gave Dublin a commanding 0-5 to 0-1 cushion into the interval.Yet the game was dramatically turned on its head upon the resumption as Meath registered 1-2 without reply to edge themselves into the ascendancy.
A routine Stacey Grimes free suddenly presented Meath with a slender advantage in the 36th minute and while Dublin eventually responded with another Tyrrell point, a Wall score at the end of a trademark lung-bursting run kept the Royals ahead inside the final quarter.
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