Dublin have won back their All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship title after surrendering to Meath for two years in a row, following their four wins from 2017-2020.
Kerry had the opportunity to win their first title in 30 years, and overtake Cork as the county with the most titles, but in the end it was a comfortable victory for the Dubs, who overcame their great rivals by a score of 0-18 to 1-10.
They controlled the proceedings for the majority of the game, leading 0-11 to 0-04 at half-time, with Kerry's only faint glimmer of hope coming when a late Louise Ni Mhuircheartaigh goal helped reduce the deficit to four points late in the game.
After the win, Dublin manager Mick Bohan praised the performances of the ladies who had not experienced such an occasion:
This is a special one. We very much feel we started at the ashes back in October/November time, so to turn this around and to be here on the biggest of days, to control the game for most of it, that's as sweet as it gets.
They were excellent. We had seen a lot of growth in the last seven or eight weeks, but we didn't know because ultimately we had so many players playing on this day that hadn't experienced it, and you don't know what the cauldron is going to do.
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After a big loss to Donegal in last year's Championship, Bohan's goal at the beginning of the season was to 'steady the ship', and he saw the season as just the beginning of a rebuild, with no goals of winning the title.
"I have to say, my coaching staff," continued Bohan, "I've just been incredibly blessed that people have been so selfless, because when we got together last October/November time, there was certainly no prize on offer in our eyes.
"It was about steadying the ship and seeing if we could be competitive and maybe even a year or two down the road and let someone else take it on.
"So to do this all in that short period of time has possibly been the greatest achievement of our coaching lives."
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