Lyndsey Davey celebrating with the Brendan Martin Cup in 2018. Image: Tommy Dickson/INPHO THE RETIREMENT QUESTION was raised at the end of each of the last few seasons, the hemming and hawing in full flow.Until over the weekend, when Lyndsey Davey called time on an illustrious inter-county football career.
“I just came to the decision with my body, that I have a lot of miles on the clock. It just probably gets harder every year to keep putting your body through that. The way the game is developing, the recovery obviously takes a lot longer. A hero on and off the field; an incredibly modest player, person and role model encapsulating all that is good about the game.It’s all she has ever known.
It would be the first of her 11 All-Ireland deciders — five wins, six defeats; the triumphs in 2010 and the four-in-a-row from ’17 to ’20 — and five All-Stars, Davey’s roll of honours across 18 years of senior service to Dublin pretty remarkable. Her final outing in the Sky Blue jersey would be July’s All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Donegal. She was a bright spark on a hugely disappointing day for Mick Bohan’s side, as they suffered an uncharacteristically early exit in Carrick-on-Shannon.“I kind of knew this year that this was always going to be my last year, regardless of the outcome,” Davey explained in the LGFA interview.
McGrath has been absent from the Dublin set-up of late so uncertainty reigns over her own future, along with that of four-in-a-row winning captain Sinéad Aherne.
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