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Published 18:47 31 Jul 2022 BST
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"Us Meath women know how to stand up and fight," she said defiantly.At 31, and as the team's beating heart, all energy and skill and dainty feet in the corner, O'Sullivan knows all about that but Meath have fighters all over this team. For someone who's sweet as sugar in interviews, Vikki Wall is one fiery lady on the pitch. Ciara Murphy was given the unenviable job of picking her up from the start and right at the start, as she horsed into her at the throw-in, Wall let Murphy know that this was going to be one of those days. The Dunboyne player's day - and indeed her Meath career for the time being - ended when she was black carded with eight minutes to go but even then, with the victory in the bag, the AFL-bound-player was still hyped-up as ever. The official who ushered her towards the dug-out wasn't given too much hop on the way off. The job was already done at that stage though and a couple of minutes later, when the camera panned to the Meath bench, and when a smile broke out across her face, it was a sign to those loyal Royal supporters that it was party-time now. Wall's mettle is a key part of their team, and that's why, when she came up on the big screen, they let out a roar that would almost deafen you. It takes a good team to win one, it takes a great team to win two. Wall will head to Australia content in the knowledge that she has gone out at the very top. https://twitter.com/GAA__JOE/status/1553794878060085250 Wall and O'Sullivan played key roles in securing that win but nobody, from one to 15, made as many inroads into that Kerry defence as Meath's Duracell bunny in the half-back line. They haven't seen an engine like Aoibhín Cleary's in the Mercedes HQ in Germany. The Donaghmore Ashbourne player is one of the best movers in Gaelic football and for the game that Meath play, full of energy and ball-carrying, Cleary is their go-to woman. She breezes past tacklers like they're not even there and on the biggest stage of all, against the best players in the country, it's no exaggeration to say that she was in a League of her own. A class apart from the rest. Kerry will have better days and, when the dust settles, they'll surely look back on this season with great pride - Síofra O'Shea and Louise Ní Mhuircheartaigh would make it into any team in the country - but this was Meath's day. And what a day it was.

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