Cork 1-17 Galway 3-11

CORK’S Gemma O’Connor collected her sixth successive All Star as the All-Ireland champions, and defeated finalists Kilkenny, dominated the camogie awards ceremony at the Citywest Hotel on Saturday night.

WINNING manager Denise Cronin has no doubt that the current Cork senior camogie team is good enough to complete an elusive treble in 2010 – but only if they ‘deserve it,’ she said after yesterday’s eight points win over Kilkenny.

Cork manager Denise Cronin leapt for joy as the Rebelettes retained the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship title, following a hard-earned 0-15 to 0-7 win before 25,924 spectators at Croke Park.

WHEN he first received the call back in February about enlisting to the Cork camogie setup, Frank Flannery batted away the request.

BOTH the Cork senior camogie team and the Clare U-21 hurlers will presumably have to contend with a strong Kilkenny support in Croke Park tomorrow.

FOURTEEN years on, but the memories still shine as clearly as ever.

SHE may have stockpiled a slew of honours in the last few years, but Aoife Murray’s appetite for success has not been sated. Gazing ahead to Sunday’s All-Ireland camogie decider against Kilkenny, the Cloughduv goalkeeper finds the same levels of feverish anticipation building up.

CLARE U21 attacking star Darach Honan is set to shake off a hamstring injury and start in next Sunday’s Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U21 decider against Kilkenny in Croke Park.

The countdown is on for this Sunday's Gala All-Ireland Camogie Championship finals at Croke Park, where the junior final will see Offaly and Waterford going head-to-head and reigning champions Cork will take on Kilkenny in the senior decider.

NOT WITH STANDING the magnificent Briege Corkery, the other key reason why holders Cork won through to meet Kilkenny in the Gala All-Ireland senior camogie decider was simply that as a unit, they responded so effectively to a below par first-half display.

THE spotlight this afternoon, inevitably, will be on holders Cork who will be aiming to make it to the Gala All-Ireland senior camogie final for the eighth year in-a-row when they take on Wexford in Nowlan Park (throw-in 4pm).

A SENIOR Cork camogie official last night admitted to being “astonished and disgusted” at the nominations for the sport’s manager of the year award.

Cork goalkeeper Aoife Murray was on the receiving end of some major plaudits from her manager Denise Cronin, after her superb shot-stopping performance helped her side earn a five-point victory over Galway in yesterday's Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie final.

AOIFE Murray was the name on nearly everybody’s lips afterwards, not surprising because she had such a major influence on the outcome after having, by her own admission, messed up in the first half.

Cork 2-10 Galway 1-08

CATRÍONA FOLEY had to make a decision about her continuing involvement with Cork in camogie and ladies football after three years as a dual player at the highest level.

LOOKING on as a spectator at last year’s Gala All-Ireland senior camogie final in Croke Park, former Cork star Denise Cronin concluded Wexford deserved their victory over the Rebels.

Cork will have experience on their side this weekend when they contest their ninth Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie final in 10 years.

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

DEFENDING champions Cork meet Galway while a resurgent Limerick battle with Tipperary in the Foras na Gaeilge All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-finals at Cusack Park, Ennis this afternoon.