Clare Camogie lost €181,000 in funding for a new camogie pitch after an administrator who “lives for Clare camogie” falsified a bank document in support of a grant application for the funding.

LAST Sunday, in an event that in so many ways transcended sport, Cork camogie captain Ashling Thompson captained her county team to win the All Ireland title decisively. Even though Galway supporters — and even some neutrals — might have preferred a different conclusion anyone who knows the personal journey successfully negotiated by Thompson will recognise that her sport was a just a conduit to redemption.

Emma Kilkelly collapsed on the Nowlan Park turf, her camogie season over in an instant.