All-Ireland champions Kilkenny and finalists Cork dominate the Camogie All-Stars 2016 shortlist.

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. 

All-Ireland camogie champions Galway dominated the 2013 All Star team, picking up seven awards at Saturday evening’s banquet in Dublin.

Galway 1-9 Kilkenny 0-7

Cork produced an outstanding second-half performance to blitz Derry at Bray Emmetts GAA club and retain their 100% record in Division One of the National Camogie League.

GALWAY talisman Veronica Curtin struck for a winning point right on the hour to break Kilkenny’s hearts and snatch a place in the camogie league final on Sunday week for the westerners in a dramatic conclusion to the first semi-final at Nowlan Park yesterday.

CORK have far too much respect for the huge challenge presented by Galway in today’s Gala All-Ireland semi-final to be preoccupied with thoughts of winning a third senior title in a row.

TWELVE times a winner herself over the course of a glittering career shared with her twin sister, Ann Downey’s delight in taking Kilkenny back to the Gala All-Ireland senior camogie final after a lapse of seven years is tempered by the awareness of what her young team faces on September 13.

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.

Kilkenny collected a third successive All-Ireland minor A camogie championship with a comfortable 3-15 to 1-7 victory against Clare in Sunday's final, played at Geraldine Park in Athy.

Kilkenny 3-11 Galway 0-17