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.

The pain of losing last year’s All-Ireland final has been the driving force behind the Kilkenny senior camogie team’s quest to reach this year’s decider.

The decision to fix seven Cork senior club championship fixtures on the same day as the county contests the All-Ireland camogie final was unavoidable, according to Cork chairperson Tracey Kennedy.

Modest to the end.

Former Cork ladies football-winning manager and current Cork senior football selector Eamonn Ryan has paid tribute to retiring legend Rena Buckley, describing her as an excellent role model for young people who showed it is possible to be successful in both study and in sport, while also having a good life socially.

It has become one of the iconic camogie photographs, up there with Angela Downey racing through to score a goal for victors Kilkenny in the 1989 All-Ireland final, despite having her skirt pulled off by Cork’s Liz O’Neill, or Lismore’s Gráinne Kenneally diving full-length football-style, sans hurley, in a bid to block a clearance by Ballyhale defender Jacqui Frisby in the drawn All-Ireland intermediate club final 25 years later.

Hortazelda Stadium in Madrid was an unlikely microcosm of the camogie world in 2017.

They christened a bridge after Christy and bored a tunnel in the name of Jack, so surely it’s time to re-name the Inniscarra Dam in honour of the local legend, the most decorated player in GAA history?

Therese O’Callaghan looks at the five things we learned from yesterday’s All-Ireland Senior Camogie Final.

During my playing days, I often thought about how Ladies Football and camogie would benefit from an organisation representing the needs of players.

How fitting that it should be Ann Downey who masterminded the end of the Kilkenny famine.

The ‘Rose of Mooncoin’ rang out loud and clear in Croke Park yesterday evening, the Kilkenny GAA ballad had not been heard on All-Ireland camogie final day for over two decades. 

Galway manager Tony Ward has described Saturday’s opponents as  one of the best U21 hurling teams of all time.

Kilkenny captain Michelle Quilty believes their semi-final extra-time victory over Galway proves they have learned lessons from their last All-Ireland final defeat to Cork.

Kilkenny 3-15 Galway 1-19 (AET)

Greater equality for players — not just silverware — is what drives Cork camogie boss Paudie Murray, who tells Eoghan Cormican why things have got to change

There was no arguing the toss with Tina last night, least of all the crowd that happily sang along to her chorus of “Simply the Best” as the bus bearing the Rebelettes rolled down South Mall.

She took a big hit towards the end of yesterday’s All-Ireland senior camogie final, but Ashling Thompson wasn’t going to give in at that stage. The Cork captain had a cup to collect and a speech to give, after all.

Cork will never tire of winning All-Irelands, that’s for sure. This must be the sweetest of all because this is a Rebel team that lost so many quality players from last season. But here they never flinched. Not once. They led from pillar to post. They dominated, coming away with their 26th title, equalling Dublin’s record at the top of the roll of honour.

Here’s the scenario that you didn’t want to see if you were a Galway camogie fan yesterday in Croke Park.

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.

Their graph was expected to dip. After successive All-Ireland final defeats, managerial resignations and the departure of two of their most experienced players, Kilkenny camogie was set to return to the chasing pack in 2015.

Cork camogie star Anna Geary last night admitted a career change forced her retirement from the game at inter-county level.

"Scatty as hell" was how the family of Cork camogie powerhouse Briege Corkery described her last night after she left her handbag behind her in the train station having doled out autographs and hugs.

An emotional day ended an emotional year for the Cork camogie team yesterday in Croke Park.

There is a lot of positivity coursing through Cork camogie this year.

Ailish O’Reilly stepped on to the Croke Park turf on Sunday free from the baggage weighing heavily on the shoulders of her Galway team-mates.

For Tony Ward, it was quite the afternoon.

Tomorrow’s All-Ireland senior camogie final has a very similar feel to the backstory of last weekend’s hurling decider.

Cyril Farrell maintained that Galway’s spell of camogie supremacy in the mid-’90s was delivered by one individual.

In late 2012, Kilkenny camogie chiefs had a big decision to make.

Camogie president Aileen Lawlor is predicting an increase in thecompetitiveness and quality of the championship, which gets underway on Saturday.

FOR THE most part the sun shone on what was an historic day for camogie at Croke Park yesterday, a memorable one for Wexford but another harrowing experience for Galway.

ALL-IRELAND champions Wexford take on National League holders Kilkenny in the top game of round four in the Gala All-Ireland Camogie Championship tomorrow.

Tipperary 2-11 Cork 1-11