Dublin county ladies' football team

The Dublin county ladies' football team represents Dublin GAA in ladies' Gaelic football. The team competes in inter-county competitions such as the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, the Leinster Senior Ladies' Football Championship and the Ladies' National Football League.

Dublin

Sport:	Ladies' football
Irish:	Áth Cliath
Nickname(s):	The Jackies The Sky Blues The Blues Sisters[1][2] Girls in Blue[3]
Home venue(s):	Parnell Park
First colours Second colours

Dublin played in their first All-Ireland final in 2003 and won their first All-Ireland title in 2010. Between 2014 and 2020, they played in seven successive All-Ireland finals. They finished as runners up to Cork in the first three, before winning four successive titles between 2017 and 2020. In 2018 Dublin also won their first League title.

Senior final appearances

All-Irelands

Dublin played in their first All-Ireland final in 2003^[4] and won their first All-Ireland title in 2010.^[5] Between 2014 and 2020 they played in seven successive All-Ireland finals. They finished as runners-up to Cork in the first three, before winning four successive titles between 2017 and 2020.^{[2][6][7][8][9]}

Season	Winner	Score	Runners–up
2003[4][10]	Mayo	1–4; 0–5	Dublin
2004[11][12]	Galway	3–8; 0–11	Dublin
2009[13][14][15]	Cork	1–9; 0–11	Dublin
2010[5][16][17]	Dublin	3–16; 0–9	Tyrone
2014[18][19][20]	Cork	2–13; 2-12	Dublin
2015[21][22][23]	Cork	0-12; 0-10	Dublin
2016[24][25][26]	Cork	1-7; 1-6	Dublin
2017[27][28][29]	Dublin	4-11; 0-11	Mayo
2018[3][30][31]	Dublin	3-11; 1-12	Cork
2019[8][9][32]	Dublin	2–3; 0–4	Galway
2020[33][34]	Dublin	1–10; 1–5	Cork
2023[35]	Dublin	0–18; 1–10	Kerry

Ladies' National Football League

In 2018 Dublin won their first League title.^[36][37]

Season	Winner	Score	Runners–up
2014 [38]	Cork		Dublin
2018[36][37]	Dublin	3–15;1–10	Mayo

Leinster Senior Ladies' Football Championship

Season	Winner	Score	Runners–up
2003	Dublin
2004 [39]	Dublin	2–10;0–7	Laois
2005	Dublin
2008 [40][41]	Dublin	1–15;0–15	Laois
2009 [42]	Dublin		Kildare
2010 [43]	Dublin		Laois
2012	Dublin
2013	Dublin
2014	Dublin
2015[44][45]	Dublin	2–12;0–11	Westmeath
2016[46]	Dublin	4–21;0–7	Westmeath
2017[47]	Dublin	3–18;0–8	Westmeath
2018[48][49]	Dublin	5–11;2–8	Westmeath
2019[50][51]	Dublin	4–11;1–7	Westmeath

Youth teams

Dublin ladies teams also compete in All-Ireland championships at the under-14, under-16 and under-18 levels.^[52][53][54]

2018 squad

• Manager: Mick Bohan
• Selectors: Ken Robinson, Niamh McEvoy, Sorcha Farrelly, Seaghan Kearney

No. Player Position Club 1 Ciara Trant Goalkeeper St Brigid's 2 Martha Byrne Right Corner Back Cuala 3 Sinéad Finnegan Full back Fingallians 4 Rachel Ruddy Left Corner Back Ballyboden St Enda's 5 Sinéad Goldrick Right half back Foxrock–Cabinteely 6 Niamh Collins Centre back Foxrock–Cabinteely 7 Leah Caffrey Left half back Na Fianna 8 Lauren Magee Midfield Kilmacud Crokes 9 Olwen Carey Midfield Thomas Davis 10 Carla Rowe Right half forward Clann Mhuire 11 Lyndsey Davey Centre forward Skerries Harps 12 Nicole Owens Left half forward St Sylvester's 13 Sinéad Aherne (c) Right corner forward St Sylvester's 14 Niamh McEvoy Full forward St Sylvester's 15 Noëlle Healy Left corner forward St Brigid's 16 Emer Ní Eafa Substitute Fingallians 17 Fiona Hudson Substitute Fingallians 18 Deirdre Murphy Substitute St Brigid's 19 Aoife Kane Substitute Kilmacud Crokes 20 Hannah O'Neill Substitute Foxrock–Cabinteely 21 Molly Lamb Substitute Kilmacud Crokes 22 Rebecca McDonnell Substitute Clanna Gael Fontenoy 23 Laura McGinley Substitute Naomh Barróg 24 Sarah McCaffrey Substitute Clontarf 25 Siobhán Woods Substitute Raheny 26 Kate Fitzgibbon Substitute O'Tooles 27 Sinéad O'Mahony Substitute Skerries Harps 28 Tarah O'Sullivan Substitute Foxrock–Cabinteely 29 Denise McKenna Substitute Fingallians 30 Aoife Curran Substitute O'Dwyers x Amy Connolly Substitute Foxrock–Cabinteely x Siobhán Killeen Substitute Clontarf

Source:^{[55][27][56][28][29][57]}

Notable players

TG4 Senior Player's Player of the Year

Season
2018 [58][59][60]	Sinéad Aherne
2017 [61][62]	Noëlle Healy
2019 [63][64]	Siobhán McGrath

All Stars

Season
2019 [63][64][65][66]	Niamh Collins, Sinéad Goldrick, Olwen Carey, Siobhán McGrath, Carla Rowe, Niamh McEvoy, Lyndsey Davey
2018 [59][60]	Sinéad Aherne, Sinéad Goldrick, Ciara Trant, Siobhán McGrath, Lauren Magee, Noëlle Healy, Lyndsey Davey
2017 [67]	Ciara Trant, Rachel Ruddy, Leah Caffrey, Nicole Owens, Sinéad Aherne, Noëlle Healy
2016 [68][69]	Leah Caffrey, Sinéad Goldrick, Noëlle Healy, Carla Rowe, Sinéad Aherne
2015 [70]	Sinead Finnegan, Sinéad Goldrick, Carla Rowe, Lyndsey Davey
2014 [71]	Sinéad Goldrick, Noëlle Healy, Lyndsey Davey, Sinéad Aherne
2013 [72]	Sinéad Goldrick
2012 [73][74]	Sinéad Goldrick
2011 [75][76][77]	Elaine Kelly, Sinéad Aherne
2010 [78][79]	Rachel Ruddy, Siobhán McGrath, Gemma Fay, Denise Masterson, Amy McGuinness, Sinéad Aherne
2009 [80][81]	Clíodhna O'Connor, Siobhán McGrath, Sinéad Aherne
2005 [82][83]	Gemma Fay, Lyndsey Davey
2004 [84]	Clíodhna O'Connor, Louise Keegan, Bernie Finlay, Mary Nevin
2003 [85]	Maria Kavanagh, Martina Farrell, Angie McNally
2002 [86]	Suzanne Hughes, Síle Nic Coitir
2001 [87]	Louise Kelly
1993 [88]	Denise Smith
1991 [89]	Julie Kavanagh
1984 [90]	Kathleen Kennedy
1983 [91]	Kathleen Kennedy

Ireland internationals

A number of Dublin ladies' footballers have also represented Ireland at international level in various other sports.

Players	Sport
Sinéad Aherne	International Rules Football
Nicola Daly	Field hockey
Deirdre Duke	Field hockey; represented Dublin at under-14 level.
Sarah Hawkshaw	Field hockey; represented Dublin at under-16 level.
Siobhán Killeen	Association football
Clíodhna O'Connor	International Rules Football
Lindsay Peat	Rugby union, Basketball, Association football (under-18)
Hannah Tyrrell	Rugby union and Rugby sevens
Emily Whelan	Association football; represented Dublin at under-16 level.

Others

• Joanne Cantwell – RTÉ sports presenter

Managers

Season
Mick Bohan	2003
John O'Leary[11][92]	2004
Gerry McGill	2009, 2010
Gregory McGonigle	2014, 2015, 2016
Mick Bohan [1]	2017, 2018, 2019

Honours

Senior;

• All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship
  • Winners: 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023: 6
  • Runners up: 2003, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021: 7
• Ladies' National Football League
  • Winners: 2018, 2021: 2
  • Runners up: 2014 : 1
• Leinster Senior Ladies' Football Championship
  • Winners: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019: 14

Youth;

• All-Ireland Under-18 Ladies' Football Championship
  • Winners: 2008, 2012: 2
  • Runners up: 1990, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016 : 5
• All-Ireland Under-16 Ladies' Football Championship
  • Winners: 1989, 2006, 2010: 3
  • Runners up: 2005, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 : 5
• All-Ireland Under-14 Ladies' Football Championship
  • Winners: 2004, 2005, 2007: 3
  • Runners up: 2006, 2010, 2011, 2018 : 4