Being “thrown in at the deep end” suited Amy O’Connor just fine. Rather than being inhibited by promotion to the Cork team while still a teenager, the St Vincent’s forward flourished with the responsibility placed on her young shoulders.

Cork 1-13 Galway 0-9: Not bad going for a team supposedly in transition.

Ashling Thompson is a symbol of a new Cork dressing room, a fresh face and voice of a team in renewal.

Galway captain, Niamh Kilkenny has described All-Ireland-winning manager Tony Ward as a man who “eats, sleeps, drinks camogie”.

Cork camogie star Katrina Mackey grimaces when she recalls the squad’s overnight bonding session on Spike Island this summer.

ST MARY’S, Charleville bid for their fourth consecutive Munster Senior Schools camogie championship title against Loreto, Fermoy at Glanworth this afternoon (3pm).

CORK have named an unchanged side for Sunday’s All-Ireland senior camogie championship final against Tipperary in Croke Park.