Successful Tipperary captains will be honoured at today's All-Ireland Ladies Football Finals Day
There have been 42 different winning captains in 49 finals
Winning captains from the 49 previous All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship Finals will be honoured at Croke Park today, Sunday, on TG4 All-Ireland Finals Day.
This year's senior showpiece is the 50th in the history of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and at half-time in the clash between Dublin and Kerry, previous winning captains will be introduced to Croke Park spectators in front of the Hogan Stand.
In the 49 Finals played to date, there have been 42 different winning captains.
The players who have lifted the Brendan Martin Cup on more than one occasion are Dublin’s Sinéad Aherne (2017-2020 inclusive), Cork’s Juliet Murphy (2005-2007 inclusive), Cork’s Ciara O’Sullivan (2015 and 2016) and Meath’s Shauna Ennis (2021 and 2022).
Prior to 2006, when Juliet Murphy captained Cork to what was a second successive title at the time, there had been a different winning captain in every year since 1974.
The first All-Ireland winning captain in 1974 was Tipperary’s Kitty Ryan-Savage.
The Premier County defeated Offaly in the first Final, played in Durrow, Co Laois.
The full list of All-Ireland Senior Championship winning captains reads as follows:
Kitty Savage (nee Ryan), Tipperary, 1974
Margaret Rossiter (nee Carroll), Tipperary, 1975
Mary Geaney, Kerry, 1976
Bridget Smith, (nee Sheridan), Cavan, 1977
Liz Gibbons, Roscommon, 1978
Doreen Daly (nee Farrell), Offaly, 1979
Josie Bourke (nee Stapleton), Tipperary, 1980
Tona McDonald, Offaly, 1981
Marian Bowler (nee Doherty), Kerry, 1982
Marina Barry-Walsh, Kerry, 1983
Bridget Leen, Kerry, 1984
Siobhan Twomey (nee Leen), Kerry, 1985
Annette Flaherty (nee Walsh), Kerry, 1986
Margaret Flaherty (nee Golden), Kerry, 1987
Mary Lane (nee Scanlon), Kerry, 1988
Kathleen Curran, Kerry, 1989
Del Whyte, Kerry, 1990
Maire Crotty-Wall, Waterford, 1991
Bernie Ryan-Duggan, Waterford, 1992
Eileen Dardis (nee Lawlor), Kerry, 1993
Geraldine Long (nee O’Ryan), Waterford, 1994
Noirin Walsh, Waterford, 1995
Maggie Kearns, Monaghan, 1996
Angela Larkin, Monaghan, 1997
Siobhan O’Ryan-Murphy, Waterford, 1998
Diane O’Hora, Mayo, 1999
Maria Staunton, Mayo, 2000
Angela Casey, Laois, 2001
Christina Heffernan, Mayo, 2002
Helena Lohan, Mayo, 2003
Annette Clarke, Galway, 2004
Juliet Murphy, Cork, 2005, 2006, 2007
Angela Walsh, Cork, 2008
Mary O’Connor, Cork, 2009
Denise Masterson, Dublin, 2010
Amy O’Shea, Cork, 2011
Rena Buckley, Cork, 2012
Ann Marie Walsh, Cork, 2013
Briege Corkery, Cork, 2014
Ciara O’Sullivan, Cork 2015, 2016
Sinéad Aherne, Dublin, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Shauna Ennis, Meath, 2021, 2022