Hannah Looney: “This Year, We Can Go For A Coffee, Or Have A Chat And Get To Know One Another, And I Think You Can See That In How We Are Working For One Another”

Tears of joy flowed from Hannah Looney after John Dermody blew his whistle for the last time at Croke Park last Sunday week. She’ll be hoping for the same outcome this time around.

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Lucia McNaughton: “In Our Parish, There’s Not A Lot Else To Do. It’s Kind Of Play Hurling And Camogie, And Go To Mass”

On Sunday Lucia McNaughton will captain Antrim on the day of her 26th birthday, in the All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Final against Kilkenny (2pm).

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Leann Fennelly: “Before The Semi-Final, One Of The Young Ones Was Like, ‘Jeez, My Body’s Going To Be In Bits When I’m Leann’s Age’”

Leann Fennelly was more than satisfied with her seven All-Ireland medals and had long given up notions of wearing the black and amber to which her family is congenitally joined it seems.

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Murray Hails Defence While Mullaney Ponders What Might Have Been

By Daragh Ó Conchúir at Croke Park Galway 1-13 Tipperary 0-12 In the end, Galway got over the line, a victory that owed much to a fortuitous goal on the hour by Orlaith McGrath and a monumental contribution to their full-back line. This was Tipperary’s fourth consecutive All-Ireland senior camogie semi-final defeat but it is a measure of the incremental …

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No Time For Sentiment As Returning Power Focuses On Job At Hand

By Daragh Ó Conchúir Katie Power has admitted that playing her first full game in almost two years for Kilkenny in last Saturday’s All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship quarter-final against Wexford was difficult but expects that it will stand to her if she gets the nod for Sunday’s televised semi-final against old rivals Cork (4pm throw-in, RTÉ 2).  “It was tough …

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