Successful Tipperary captains will be honoured at today's All-Ireland Ladies Football Finals Day

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