Dublin ladies manager Paul Casey says that the hunger is still very much there from the veterans within his squad to deliver another All-Ireland success this weekend.

Sunday sees Dublin taking on neighbours Meath in the Ladies All-Ireland senior football championship final at Croke Park (4.15pm), where the capital women will be bidding for a sixth Brendan Martin Cup in eight years.

Speaking to RTE Sport this week, Casey says his entire group are relishing the occasion which will seasoned stars such as Hannah Tyrrell and Carla Rowe looking to add to their already impressive haul of medals.

"The hunger with those players is still there. We've Sinead Goldrick back from Australia and Hannah Tyrrell is still going very strong. Carla [Rowe], Leah [Caffrey], Martha [Byrne], lots of girls with multiple All-Ireland medals, but they still have a hunger just like any of the younger girls and it's great to see,” the Dublin boss stated.

"They're really looking forward to it because they wanted to be back on the biggest stage of the year and hopefully they can do themselves justice now on Sunday. You see the experience and we have so many natural footballers and players that always play full of heart, but they're well able to play football as well.

"Their skills execution is brilliant, they're a fit team and do that jersey proud every single time they pull it on. They will fight to the very, very end as we've seen a couple of times this year and the team that goes out plays it like it's their last game

"We've had young players come into the squad and they've stepped up to the mark and they've been looking at the older players and learned lots from them.

"The older players have only been too happy to pass on their knowledge to those younger girls."

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