Antrim underdogs ready to upset the odds in All-Ireland final

Ahead of the All-Ireland ladies' football final on Saturday, one of the stories of the season has been Moneyglass.

A small village from Antrim, they are the first side from the county to win an Ulster title, having shocked the likes of Clann Éireann and Errigal Ciarán.

Many people expected their journey to end in the All-Ireland semi-finals against last season's runners-up, Kilmacud Crokes, but Moneyglass had other ideas.

Speaking ahead of the All-Ireland final against Kilkerrin-Clonberne, forward Maria O'Neill said the community is in high spirits.

"The whole community is kind of buzzing. Obviously, this is the first time for not only us as a club, but for any Antrim team to be in an All-Ireland senior final. Everybody is talking about it, everyone's wishing you luck.

"I think everyone was a bit shocked because our main goal at the start of the year was obviously to try to win Ulster and try to get out of Ulster, as it has been the past four years, and we failed the past four years.

"So to get out of Ulster was unreal, and we kind of knew that when we came into the All-Ireland scene that it was a whole different kind of ball game, like the physicality level, you were coming up against really, really big county players and all the rest of it.

"We went into the game with the kind of perspective that it was going to be a really tough game and we'd just give it a shot and see how well we could get on.

"To come out the winning side of it, I think everyone was just really, really shocked, and everyone was absolutely thrilled and over the moon. Now we're in an All-Ireland final, and it doesn't get better than this."

Coming into Saturday, the lead-up to the final could not be more different for the two sides.

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