Tipperary camogie player Nicole Walsh is recovering at home after her frightening injury caused the abandonment of Saturday evening’s All-Ireland Championship meeting of Tipp and Waterford at The Ragg.

The Ladies Gaelic Football Association, the Camogie Association and the GAA moved a step closer to one another today.

“I wouldn’t like to count all the All-Ireland medals in this room,” remarked Joan O’Flynn, Camogie Association chief executive, as she began proceedings at a lunch honouring Rena Buckley’s record-breaking career at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

Camogie Association president Catherine Neary is confident that this year’s championship will not be hit by the same controversies that dogged last season’s competition after taking steps to rectify a number of high-profile issues.

Camogie’s National League celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and it is fitting that the inaugural victors, Tipperary, are back in contention again after a lengthy spell in the doldrums.

It’s the time of year again when the All-Ireland qualifiers creep upon us and, with them, the perennial spike in the criticisms of the footballing and hurling competition structures and a myriad of suggestions as to how they could be improved.

The newly inaugurated Camogie president says the game needs a stronger following - from camogie players.

The Camogie Association is to consider the introduction of Hawkeye, the advantage rule and other radical changes to its playing rules at annual Congress in Croke Park today.