2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final

2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Final
	First of five titles in a row for Cork
Date	2 October 2005
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Player of the Match	Valerie Mulcahy
Referee	Tony Clarke (Dublin)
Attendance	23,358
	← 2004 2006 →

The 2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Cork and Galway. It was Cork's first final and Galway's third. Galway were also the reigning champions, having won the 2004 final. Galway led 0–4 to 0–3 at half-time, but Player of the Match, Valerie Mulcahy, subsequently scored 1–5 to help Cork win their first All-Ireland title. Cork eventually won 1–11 to 0–8.^[1] It was also the first of five consecutive All-Ireland finals that Cork would win between 2005 and 2009.^[2]

The Galway team featured Annette Clarke as well as Claire Molloy, a future Ireland women's rugby union international, and Niamh Fahey, a future Republic of Ireland women's association football international.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Match info

2 October 2005

Cork	1–11; 0–8	Galway
Valerie Mulcahy (1-5) Nollaig Cleary (0-3) Deirdre O'Reilly (0-2) Briege Corkery (0-1)	^[1]^[7]	Niamh Fahey (0-3) Philomena Ni Fhlatharta (0-2) Niamh Duggan (0-2) Patricia Gleeson (0-1)

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 23,358

Referee: Tony Clarke (Dublin)

Teams

Manager: Éamonn Ryan Team: 1 Elaine Harte 2 Bríd Stack 3 Angela Walsh 4 Rena Buckley 5 Briege Corkery 6 Ciara Walsh 7 S. O'Reilly 8 Juliet Murphy (c) 9 Norita Kelly 10 Amanda Murphy 11 Regina Curtin 12 Nollaig Cleary 13 Valerie Mulcahy 14 Caoimhe Creedon 15 Geraldine O'Flynn Substitutes: Mary O'Connor for O’Flynn (27) Deirdre O'Reilly for Creedon (40) A O'Connor for Curtin (55) N Keohane for A. Murphy (62)		Manager: Richard Bowles Team: 1 Una Carroll 2 M. Glynn 3 Ruth Stephens 4 Anne-Marie McDonough 5 Marie O'Connell 6 Aoibheann Daly (c) 7 Emer Flaherty 8 Annette Clarke 9 Edel Concannon 10 Geraldine Conneally 11 Niamh Duggan 12 Philomena Ni Fhlatharta 13 Rebecca McPhilbin 14 Niamh Fahey 15 Lorna Joyce Substitutes: Patricia Gleeson for Joyce (41) Claire Molloy for McDonough (44) Lisa Cohill for McPhilbin (52)

References

^ ^a ^b "Mulcahy shoots the rebels to historic title treble". ladiesgaelic.ie. 3 October 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ "10 Incredible Facts About Ladies Football". balls.ie. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
^ "Twist of fate led Claire Molloy to a rugby career with Ireland". irishtimes.com. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
^ "Strong Galway can retain title". irishtimes.com. 1 October 2005. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
^ "Claire Molloy: The woman who gave up her All-Ireland dreams to chase a Grand Slam". the42.ie. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
^ "These 10 top Irish female athletes have experienced the wrath of Cork". the42.ie. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
^ "Galway v Cork - Ladies Senior Final Photos". sportsfile.com. 2 October 2005. Retrieved 26 February 2018.

[ladiesgaelic031005-1] "Mulcahy shoots the rebels to historic title treble". ladiesgaelic.ie. 3 October 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2018.

[balls110816-2] "10 Incredible Facts About Ladies Football". balls.ie. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

[irishtimes010217-3] "Twist of fate led Claire Molloy to a rugby career with Ireland". irishtimes.com. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

[irishtimes011005-4] "Strong Galway can retain title". irishtimes.com. 1 October 2005. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

[the42010314-5] "Claire Molloy: The woman who gave up her All-Ireland dreams to chase a Grand Slam". the42.ie. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

[the42240915-6] "These 10 top Irish female athletes have experienced the wrath of Cork". the42.ie. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

[sportsfile021005-7] "Galway v Cork - Ladies Senior Final Photos". sportsfile.com. 2 October 2005. Retrieved 26 February 2018.

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