{"id":315776,"date":"2025-08-03T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315776\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:37:10","slug":"they-were-awesome-staunton-and-stack-on-dubs-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315776\/","title":{"rendered":"‘They were awesome’ – Staunton and Stack on Dubs glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin produced a ferociously hungry performance to ease past Meath in Sunday’s TG4 All-Ireland SFC final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The departure of manager Mick Bohan last November led some to speculate whether this might be a year of transition for the Dubs.<\/p>\n

Instead, joint-managers Paul Casey and Derek Murray led them to glory, the side peaking when it mattered most to lift the Brendan Martin Cup.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the decider, former Mayo star Cora Staunton and seven-time Cork All Star Br\u00edd Stack said Meath could have no complaints.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think (Dublin) ever went away,” said Staunton. “Maybe the hurt from 2021, when Meath stopped them from winning five in a row… obviously they won again in 2023, but today they were just awesome.<\/p>\n

“Meath couldn’t match their intensity, their athleticism. Their first-half performance in particular was brilliant. The game was over at half-time. While we wanted it to be a good spectacle, it was over. Dublin were just immense.<\/p>\n

“Their big players – the likes of Carla Rowe, Orlagh Nolan, Kate Sullivan – dominated up front and their defence were very dominant. Deserving winners. And it was great to see Hannah Tyrrell go out on a high after a wonderful career.”<\/p>\n

Stack concurred. She was particularly impressed with Dublin’s energy, the constant running with and without the ball that had Meath all at sea.<\/p>\n

“You just couldn’t fault the fluidity of their movement – the link play, the level of fitness was absolutely just on show from start to finish,” said Stack.<\/p>\n

“I suppose the intent was the biggest thing.<\/p>\n

“It was the team that felt a bit of hurt I suppose last year, bowing out to Galway. They came back with a massive will and a massive intent. They did that from start to finish.<\/p>\n

“All their big players stepped up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin produced a ferociously hungry performance to ease past Meath in Sunday’s TG4 All-Ireland SFC final. The departure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-315776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114967468052654768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}