2003 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final
# 2003 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final

The 2003 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Mayo and Dublin. Mayo defeated Dublin in a low scoring game. Mayo retained the title, winning their fourth final in five years, while Dublin were making their debut appearance. Dublin led 0–4 to 0–2 at half-time. Two minutes from full-time Mayo trailed Dublin by a point. However the match was decided thanks to a late goal from Player of the Match, Diane O'Hora. Cora Staunton dropped a last-minute long range free-kick into the square. The Dublin goalkeeper, Clíodhna O'Connor, failed to gain control of the ball, allowing O'Hora to score. In July 2003, Aisling McGing, a member of Mayo's 2002 winning team, was killed in a car crash. She was travelling to watch her two sisters, Michelle and Sharon McGing, play for Mayo against Galway in a Connacht Championship game. Just three months later, Michelle and Sharon McGing played for Mayo in the All-Ireland final.

## Teams

| Manager: Finbar Egan Team: 1 Denise Horan 2 Nuala O'Shea 3 Helena Lohan (c) 4 Sharon McGing 5 Mary T. Garvey 6 Yvonne Byrne 7 Claire O'Hara 8 Clare Egan 9 Jackie Moran 10 E. Mullins 11 Cora Staunton 12 Michelle McGing 13 Diane O'Hora 14 Marcella Heffernan 15 Christina Heffernan Substitutes: A. Gallagher for Moran (39 mins) | Manager: Mick Bohan Team: 1 Clíodhna O'Connor 2 Sorcha Farrelly 3 Louise Keegan 4 Maria Kavanagh 5 Niamh Hurley 6 Martina Farrell (c) 7 Orla Colreavy 8 Angie McNally 9 Niamh McEvoy 10 E. Murphy 11 Gemma Fay 12 Bernie Finlay 13 Mary Nevin 14 Louise Kelly 15 K. Hopkins Substitutes: Elaine Kelly for Murphy (28) Aisling McCormack for Hopkins (43) Sinéad Aherne for Finlay (45) |
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