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.

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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.

Sixteen years after her senior debut Gemma O’Connor is still a mainstay of the Cork Camogie side seeking to defend their All-Ireland title.

Cork dual players Hannah Looney and Libby Coppinger are facing the prospect of playing two championship games on the one day, unless the Camogie Association and Munster LGFA reach a compromise.

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Dual star Libby Coppinger has spoken about the difficulties of getting dragged into a high-profile college versus county row between the managers of the Cork senior camogie team and UCC’s women’s football side.

Cork manager Paudie Murray yesterday hit back at UCC Ladies Football chiefs in a row over dual players.

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?

Cork ladies football manager Ephie Fitzgerald has slammed the treatment of dual star Libby Coppinger, who is facing the possibility of lining out in All-Ireland championship games in two codes on Saturday.

Valerie Mulcahy thought it might be beneficial to gauge the demographics of match attendances at Croke Park to better understand who is attending the games, why and work towards making a positive change in engaging supporters to attend women’s sport

Tributes have been paid to the referee who collapsed and died on Saturday as he officiated a camogie game in Cork.

The establishment of a player development programme from minor upwards and a representative body for club players, the implementation of a regeneration project for hurling in Cork City and the appointment of a Director for football, hurling and a head of physical development are among the 25 proposals formulated by Cork GAA coaching officer Kevin O’Donovan to arrest the decline of both codes in the county.

Limerick dual players Rebecca Delee and Niamh Richardson are facing the prospect of having to choose one code over the other on Sunday, as a result of this latest LGFA/Camogie Association fixture clash.

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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

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

The Cork Ladies Football Board has hit out at the LGFA as dual players potentially face another fixtures clash, despite negotiations between the LGFA and Camogie Association.

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All-Ireland-winning Cork camogie manager Paudie Murray says “the sooner the Camogie Association and LGFA merge with the GAA, the better”.

National Camogie League champions Kilkenny lost the opening game of their title defence with a four-point reversal against Cork at the Mardyke yesterday (0-9 to 0-5).

ANNA GEARY is the captain of the Cork camogie team, the Cork Rose 2014 and a marketing executive with Dell Ireland. She also is a national ambassador for Ireland’s first Workplace Wellbeing Day, which takes place on Friday, March 27.

It’s ladies to the fore as the 2014 Cork Person of the Year will be announced this week.

Cork star, Jennifer O’Leary has been announced as the winner of the Camogie Award for the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Munster GAA Awards.

The countdown to Christmas is on, as both Dublin and Cork prepare to turn on their lights this evening.

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I left Dublin too late last Thursday and had to hare it down the motorway to get to CIT in time, writes Dónal Óg Cusack.

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.

BEFORE captaining Cork ladies’ football team to all-Ireland victory last month, Rena Buckley had to get over a disappointment.

Iarnrod Eireann announced last week there were special services running to and from Thurles for the eagerly awaited Allianz League decider.

WITHIN a week of Henry Shefflin winning his seventh All-Ireland senior hurling medal, Mary O’Connor matched that feat with the Cork camogie team, having won her first back in 1997 when teams were 12-a-side.

MORE than 675,000 people from home and abroad lined the streets of Dublin for one of the world’s most colourful St Patrick’s Day parades.

Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world are expected to throng the streets of Dublin today for the annual St Patrick’s Day parade.

Five in-a-row All-Ireland 60 x 30 handball winner Eoin Kennedy says authorities have missed out on a 'glorious opportunity' to promote the game by not including a representative from the GAA sport as one of the Grand Marshals for this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin.

In the wake of the Kildare Ladies Footballers injecting their own personal funds into their panel, Cork's 2008 All-Ireland-winning camogie captain Caitriona Foley feels that a Gaelic Players Association-style organisation may be needed for the two women's gaelic codes.