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Published 19:38 15 Sept 2019 BST
Updated 19:40 15 Sept 2019 BST
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The circumstances?The All-Ireland ladies football finals played off to atrocious weather conditions on Sunday afternoon in Croke Park and unsurprisingly, fumbles, spills and misplaced passes were the theme of the day. A slippy pitch, a wet ball. A footballer's nightmare. It only means one thing. The nuts and bolts rather than the icing. The tackles, the interceptions, the elbow grease. Five scores was all it took to win the senior game. Call it ironic or whatever you want then, but there was an intermediate skipping about the Drumcondra turf today who proved a glorious exception to the rule of thumb. Moloney turned in one of the great All-Ireland final displays to win the intermediate title for Tipperary. She rose above all those legitimate excuses to do what she's been doing every day since she was a youngster in Cahir. Making the extraordinary ordinary.
Who's that number 11 for Tipp?We should never have doubted that she wouldn't deliver. That something like the conditions could put her off. She seems to reach this zone every time she crosses the white line. She did it for Tipp, inspired them to their second All-Ireland intermediate title in three years. This time, managing 0-8, 0-7 of them from open play in an exhibition that took every onlooker from annoyance at the weather to sheer awe at the magic of it all. Some of her scores were different level jaw-dropping. Like this one when she had no right to gather that ball. https://twitter.com/GAA__JOE/status/1173289542406815745 She played crucial roles in Tipp's two goals, dictated the game to her hearts' content. Tipperary will be senior next year. Aishling Moloney will be where she belongs.
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