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Kobe McDonald shone as Mayo and Monaghan clashed in Round Four of the National Football League Division One in Saint Tiernach's Park, Clones. Pics: Sportsfile
CORA STAUNTON
The greatest Mayo footballer of the modern era, beyond any shadow of a doubt. You can take your pick of metrics to judge this.
Whether it be the eleven All-Stars spanning 17 years, the quartet of Celtic Crosses for Mayo (alongside six All-Ireland club crowns), or her stupendous scoring metrics, you can't help but hail Carnacon's finest as one of the best to lace up a pair of boots in the Ladies' game.
She hung up her inter-county boots in 2018 to pursue an AFLW career with Greater Western Sydney, and it speaks volumes that one could make the argument that she cut her football career short some 23 seasons after her first appearance.
That maiden showing came all the way back in 1995, when the iconic forward made her way onto the turf for a National League outing at the mind-blowing age of 13.
It didn't take long for Staunton, who was in first year at Ballinrobe Community School, to impress herself on the tie, scoring a stunning 2-5 on the road in Laois to help Mayo along the way to a National League Final that year.
In a senior inter-county top-flight decider that season, she tore Waterford, one of the premier sides at the time, asunder with 1-8 as Mayo lost out narrowly.
Now, Staunton is part of the Ballina Stephenites GAA backroom team, and scored in her sole 2025 appearance for Carnacon some 30 years after her first game for her county as they fell to defeat against Hollymount in the Senior Relegation play-off.
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