2006 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final

2006 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Final
	Second of five titles in a row for Cork
Date	2 October 2006
Venue	Croke Park, Dublin
Player of the Match	Nollaig Cleary
Referee	Declan Corcoran (Mayo)
Attendance	25,665
	← 2005 2007 →

The 2006 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Cork and Armagh. Armagh led 1–4 to 0–3 at half-time but a goal from player of the match, Nollaig Cleary, helped Cork to a one-point win. ^[1]^[2] It was also the second of five consecutive All-Ireland finals that Cork would win between 2005 and 2009.^[3] The Armagh team featured Caroline O'Hanlon, a Northern Ireland netball international.^[4]

Match info edit

2 October 2006

Cork	1–7; 1–6	Armagh
Nollaig Cleary (1-2) Mary O'Connor (0-1) Juliet Murphy (0-1) Caoimhe Creedon (0-1) Amanda Murphy (0-1) Geraldine O'Flynn (0-1)	^[1]^[2]^[5]	Mairéad Tennyson (1-1) Maighdlin McAlinden (0-2) Caroline O'Hanlon (0-2) Aileen Matthews (0-1)

Attendance: 25,665

Referee: Declan Corcoran (Mayo)

Manager: Éamonn Ryan Team: 1 Elaine Harte 2 Rena Buckley 3 Angela Walsh 4 Briege Corkery 5 Geraldine O'Flynn 6 Bríd Stack 7 S. O'Reilly 8 Juliet Murphy (c) 9 Norita Kelly 10 Nollaig Cleary 11 Deirdre O'Reilly 12 Amanda Murphy 13 Valerie Mulcahy 14 Mary O'Connor 15 Caoimhe Creedon Substitutes: Mairéad Kelly for Mulcahy (44) Ciara Walsh for A. Murphy (48) Amanda Murphy for Creedon (52)		Manager: Team: 1 F. McAtamney 2 Caoimhe Marley 3 Fiona Quinn 4 Ailish Murphy 5 R. O’Mahony 6 Bronagh O'Donnell (c) 7 Sinead McCleary 8 Alma O'Donnell 9 Caroline O'Hanlon 10 Mairéad Tennyson 11 Sharon Duncan 12 Shauna O'Hagan 13 Maighdlin McAlinden 14 Maria O'Donnell 15 Aileen Matthews Substitutes: P. McAvoy for Matthews (42) O. Murtagh for Murphy (45) D. Toal for M. O’Donnell (54) Maebh Moriarty for Duncan (58)

^ ^a ^b "Cork belles dig deep to ring up double". www.irishexaminer.com. 2 October 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Armagh 1-6 1-7 Cork". news.bbc.co.uk. 1 October 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
^ "10 Incredible Facts About Ladies Football". www.balls.ie. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
^ "These 10 top Irish female athletes have experienced the wrath of Cork". www.the42.ie. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
^ "Cork v Armagh - TG4 Ladies All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 1 October 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2018.