Cora Staunton would love to see the All-Ireland senior ladies football final played before the men's final.

The ladies finals have been traditionally staged at Croke Park a week after the men's decider, but the Mayo legend reckons ladies football would be exposed to a much wider audience if its showpiece game was brought forward to the third Sunday in September.

"I would love to sometime see the day when an All-Ireland women's final is played before the men's," Staunton said in an interview with The Irish Times.

"And I can understand; yeah, a lot of people aren't going to want to go to a certain standard of match. But a lot of the senior games now are quite good. It is more of an expansive open game.

"If more people even happened to see our game before one of the men's games, they might actually look at it and think: Jeez, this is not bad. And maybe then they would show up half an hour earlier for the next game. What can be done to change it? I dunno."

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