2003 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final

2003 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Final
Event	2003 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship
	Mayo retain the title, winning their fourth final in five years. Dublin make their debut.
Date	5 October 2003
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Player of the Match	Diane O'Hora
	← 2002 2004 →

The 2003 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Mayo and Dublin. Mayo defeated Dublin in a low scoring game. Mayo retained the title, winning their fourth final in five years, while Dublin were making their debut appearance. Dublin led 0–4 to 0–2 at half-time. Two minutes from full-time Mayo trailed Dublin by a point. However the match was decided thanks to a late goal from Player of the Match, Diane O'Hora. Cora Staunton dropped a last-minute long range free-kick into the square. The Dublin goalkeeper, Clíodhna O'Connor, failed to gain control of the ball, allowing O'Hora to score. ^[1]^[2]^[3] In July 2003, Aisling McGing, a member of Mayo's 2002 winning team, was killed in a car crash. She was travelling to watch her two sisters, Michelle and Sharon McGing, play for Mayo against Galway in a Connacht Championship game. Just three months later, Michelle and Sharon McGing played for Mayo in the All-Ireland final. ^[2]^[4]

Match info

5 October 2003

Mayo	1–4; 0–5	Dublin
E. Mullins (0-1) Michelle McGing (0-1) Diane O'Hora (1-2)	^[1]^[3]	Angie McNally (0-1) Gemma Fay (0-1) Mary Nevin (0-1) K. Hopkins (0-1) Sinéad Aherne (0-1)

Croke Park, Dublin

Teams

Manager: Finbar Egan Team: 1 Denise Horan 2 Nuala O'Shea 3 Helena Lohan (c) 4 Sharon McGing 5 Mary T. Garvey 6 Yvonne Byrne 7 Claire O'Hara 8 Clare Egan 9 Jackie Moran 10 E. Mullins 11 Cora Staunton 12 Michelle McGing 13 Diane O'Hora 14 Marcella Heffernan 15 Christina Heffernan Substitutes: A. Gallagher for Moran (39 mins)		Manager: Mick Bohan Team: 1 Clíodhna O'Connor 2 Sorcha Farrelly 3 Louise Keegan 4 Maria Kavanagh 5 Niamh Hurley 6 Martina Farrell (c) 7 Orla Colreavy 8 Angie McNally 9 Niamh McEvoy 10 E. Murphy 11 Gemma Fay 12 Bernie Finlay 13 Mary Nevin 14 Louise Kelly 15 K. Hopkins Substitutes: Elaine Kelly for Murphy (28) Aisling McCormack for Hopkins (43) Sinéad Aherne for Finlay (45)

References

^ ^a ^b "Mayo retain their title, Donegal win Junior". ladiesgaelic.ie. 6 October 2003. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b "'We went into the dressing room and said that some greater power had been the cause of that'". www.the42.ie. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Mayo v Dublin Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 5 October 2003. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
^ "Mayo 2003: An Untold Story Of Unimaginable Tragedy And All-Ireland Triumph". www.balls.ie. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2019.

[ladiesgaelic061003-1] "Mayo retain their title, Donegal win Junior". ladiesgaelic.ie. 6 October 2003. Retrieved 20 September 2019.

[42ie220917-2] "'We went into the dressing room and said that some greater power had been the cause of that'". www.the42.ie. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2019.

[sportsfile051003-3] "Mayo v Dublin Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 5 October 2003. Retrieved 20 September 2019.

[balls160918-4] "Mayo 2003: An Untold Story Of Unimaginable Tragedy And All-Ireland Triumph". www.balls.ie. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2019.

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