Meath's Emma Duggan aiming to add Leinster title to growing CV

Emma Duggan's sporting roll of honour has exploded in recent years but there is one glaring omission – a Leinster senior title.

From December 2020 to April 2022, the DCU student collected All-Ireland titles at senior and intermediate level and National League Division 1 and 2 winning medals.

Covid restrictions meant that the Leinster Championship wasn’t staged over the last two seasons, but Duggan and the Royals will get their chance this Saturday as they face Dublin in the final at Croke Park as part of a double-header also featuring the men’s final between Dublin and Kildare.

"It’s massive, it’s a competition that we value a huge amount having not played in it for how many years," Duggan, who was speaking as an ambassador for the 2022 Kellogg's GAA Cúl Camps, said.

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"It’s the same for Dublin, they haven’t had a Leinster competition in two or three years now at this stage so they’re going to be feeling the exact same way as we are.

"It’s something that a lot of us have spoken about. I don’t have a Leinster medal at adult level so it’s definitely something that I want in my back pocket as well as the rest of the girls. A lot of them only have one at intermediate level so we’re really, really motivated for the game.

"There’s an awful lot of hunger within the group so hopefully we can go out and show that on Saturday and we’re coming away with a Leinster medal."

For so long Dublin have been the dominant side in the women's game, a team Meath aspired to match.

Eamonn Murray’s charges have