Five-time All-Ireland winner Lyndsey Davey calls time with Dublin

When Dublin senior ladies football manager Mick Bohan sits down to finalise his squad for the 2023 season, one notable name will be missing from his list.

Almost two decades on from making her senior debut as a precocious 14-year-old in July 2004, as a substitute in a Leinster semi-final win over Louth, Lyndsey Davey has opted to bring the curtain down on an illustrious inter-county career.

A five-time TG4 All-Ireland senior championship winner, the Skerries Harps star also picked up the same number of All Stars and was a TG4 Ladies Football Players' Player of the Year nominee in 2015 and 2018.

Additionally, she amassed an astounding 13 Leinster Senior Championship titles and four National Football League crowns - spread evenly across Divisions 1 and 2.

She featured for Dublin in this year’s TG4 All-Ireland series, but the quarter-final defeat to Donegal on July 9 in Carrick-on-Shannon has proven to be her last appearance. The decision to retire isn’t one the 33-year-old Dublin Airport firefighter took lightly, but Davey insists it is the right time to step away.

"I suppose in every player’s life, there comes a time when you just have to assess what’s going on," Davey said.

"It kind of has to be done on a year-on-year basis. 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.

"From each session to each match, you just get that realisation that it’s the right thing for your body and probably at the stage in my life that I’m at, it’s probably the right time to move onto the next chapter.

"Also, I recently became a paramedic, so getting delayed at