Women in Sport: All Roads Lead To Carlow This Sunday For The Ladies Leinster Football Finals

All eyes will be on Netwatch Cullen Park this Sunday as the TG4 Junior, Intermediate and Senior Leinster finals will kick off from 12pm. In what is set to be a fantastic showcase of ladies football, there are certainly some interesting clashes in store at each level. In the senior final, firm favourites Dublin will go head-to-head with Westmeath. Dublin come into the game off the back of a win over Laois in the semi-final. Last year’s All-Ireland finalists and Leinster champions Dublin will be hoping to continue their winning streak in Sunday’s final and bag their fourth Leinster title in a row. However they will be faced with a tough challenge in 2011 Intermediate champions Westmeath, who are looking forward to making their mark on the Leinster scene this weekend. They come into the game off the back of a fantastic win over near neighbours Meath in the semi-final and will be hoping to do one better than their male counterparts in the final, who succumbed to a strong Dublin side at Croke Park last weekend. https://youtu.be/A596MMFqFVE Video via YouTube/LadiesFootballTV/Jerome Quinn Meanwhile in the intermediate final, Kildare and Offaly will do battle for glory. Newly regraded Kildare will be hoping to have the upper hand over an Offaly side who came up to intermediate off the back of an All-Ireland junior championship win in 2013. The Lily Whites are favourites for the game given their experience at senior level the last few years, and will be relying on players such as Aisling Holton to step up and make their mark on the day. Offaly players celebrating in 2013. Offaly will have a different game plan in mind, and are coming into the game off the back of a brilliant League run which saw them defeat Limerick to gain promotion into Division 3. Finally in the junior final it will be the turn of Carlow and Louth. Carlow are in the final after a rollercoaster few years, which saw them unable to field a county team for the last two years. They’ve certainly made their mark this year though and will be hoping to overcome a Louth side who are firm favourites for the game and are certainly no strangers to the pressure of finals. The junior game will kick off at 12pm, followed by the intermediate clash at 2pm and the senior clash at 4pm.