o That First Senior Title!

A day I can safely say I will never forget. No one who was in the Dunsany dressing room at half time will ever have trouble recalling the half time team talk. Intimadating as the speech that Sean Dempsey delivered was, it must have worked.There was a hunger a willingness to win displayed by the girls on the pitch that was matched on just one other occasion(1999 Senior Final). Christine O'Brien and Ann Marie Dennehy, lorded midfield. Old friendships with member of the Ultans contingent, were soon put on hold. Shirley DIxon battled hard and won in key areas of the pitch. Trish Grimes could do no wrong. Sixty minutes later, Dunsany's proud record of winning at the highest level was born, The dominance began, players would grow stronger and faster, the underage teams would be feeding the junior team and in turn the junior would feed the senior team. We had the cup for the first time and we intended to hold on to it