It was a moment made for A Season of Sundays. After Cork got over the line against Galway in the All-Ireland camogie semi-final, a heartbroken Aoife Donohue knelt crumpled on the pitch.

Niamh McGrath, 24, is daughter of Galway legend ‘Hopper’ and hockey international Geraldine, and is joined on the Galway squad that play Kilkenny in today’s Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds (7pm) by sisters Clodagh, 23, Orlaith, 21, and Siobhán, 16

Dublin manager David Herity has fostered a desire to embrace any challenge facing his squad and taking on the cream of camogie’s crop represents the greatest challenge of all.

Irish female sports stars have a nice line in first-name recognition. Sonia, of course, is the original and most iconic. Since then we’ve had other heroines: Katie, Derval, Stephanie, and Annalise.