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Cora Staunton remembers 2001 All Ireland final defeat to Laois in new autobiography

Cora Staunton, Mayo, is tackled by Patricia Fogarty during the 2001 All Ireland ladies football final. Picture: Sportsfile

It’s one of the greatest days in Laois’s sporting history – the September Sunday in 2001 when the county’s ladies football team won the All Ireland title for the first time following a series of near misses. In front of a then record crowd for an All Ireland ladies final of almost 21,000, it concluded…