Wexford snatched an injury time victory to book a Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie semi-final against champions Cork, writes Daragh O Conchúir.

The Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship got off to an all-action start and Innovate Wexford Park played host to an absolute humdinger.

It is all happening for Oulart-The Ballagh. The camogie and hurling teams completed a Leinster double before Christmas and now dream of welcoming two AIB All- Ireland trophies by the end of March.

Oulart-The-Ballagh (Wexford) 3-13 Mullagh (Galway) 0-7

The last time Mullagh won the AIB All-Ireland senior club title, they created quite a shock on the way by beating champions Glen Rovers in the semi-final over two decades ago. 

A former public servant who was "burnt out of his house" following his conviction for sexually assaulting two young girls has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal.

Cork 1-09 Wexford 1-09

Cork 1-9 Wexford 1-9

Community organisations in west Waterford are to get live information on crimes and suspicious activity as part of a new text alert system.

The good times have been rolling for over a decade for quite a few of Wexford’s camogie stock, But rather than all the success satisfying their appetites, star centre-back Mary Leacy says it only serves to sharpen their focus to sustain the run.

Leaving Nowlan Park on Saturday, the chat quickly turned to the All-Ireland final on September 16.

Cork marked their return to the big time with a deserved victory to scupper Wexford’s four-in-a-row Camogie League Division 1 title bid at Semple Stadium.

Wexford took the psychological boost away from this clash as they hammered a very poor Laois outfit with 15 points to spare at Bellefield yesterday.

When the final whistle sounded, Wexford supporters paused before a huge cheer greeted their dramatic comeback having pulled off one of the great escapes at Wexford Park yesterday.

Wexford’s grip on camogie shows no signs of diminishing as Oulart-The Ballagh claimed the All-Ireland Clunb senior title at Croke Park yesterday.

Oulart-The Ballagh (Wexford) 3-13 Drom & Inch (Tipperary) 0-5

Antrim, without their Loughgiel players, pulled off an exciting and thoroughly deserved victory over Wexford at Casement Park yesterday.

Glynn Barntown duo John Leacy and Gary Moore will make their debuts for Wexford in Sunday's Allianz Hurling League clash with Antrim at Casement Park (throw-in 1.30pm).

THE conviction of champions saw Wexford win this All-Ireland senior camogie final in Croke Park yesterday, the trepidation of perennial challengers cost Galway.

CORK extinguished Tipperary’s hopes of reaching the All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-finals with a hard-fought victory at the Cork Institute of Technology’s grounds on Saturday.

The semi-finalists have been decided for the All-Ireland senior camogie championship in association with RTÉ sport.

SUBSTITUTE Eamonn Dillon’s 37th-minute goal inspired Dublin to victory in this exciting Leinster U21 hurling championship final at Wexford Park last night.

Wexford put some previous lethargic performances behind them with their best display of the season so far, slamming Tipperary by 5-11 to 0-10 in the All-Ireland senior camogie championship.

WEXFORD survived a strong Galway test to claim a third successive Division One title at Semple Stadium yesterday.

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.

Wexford 1-12 Galway 1-10

CONTRASTING ends of the age spectrum were very much to the fore when East Cork defeated Dungarvan in Saturday’s Munster final of the Bulmers Irish Junior Cup at Castletroy.

WEXFORD put their recent history of agonising semi-final defeats behind them with a commanding second-half performance to book a berth in the Gala All-Ireland senior camogie final in front of 3,082 people at Nowlan Park.

KILKENNY reversed the result of last year’s All-Ireland final with a thrilling 0-13 to 2-6 victory over Cork in the second round of Gala All-Ireland senior camogie championship.

Wexford captured a National Camogie League double at Semple Stadium this afternoon as the Slaneysiders prevailed in the Division 1 and Division 2 finals.

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.

Kilkenny's Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship hopes are hanging by a thread after they were well beaten by last year’s finalists Cork in Kilmanagh today.

Battling champions Wexford ensured that they are still in with a real chance of making the semi-finals of the 2008 Gala All-Ireland senior championship after securing a dramatic 3-8 to 2-8 victory against Tipperary on Saturday.

Kilkenny repeated their National League final victory over Galway by scoring a 1-13 to 1-9 victory against the Tribeswomen in the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship today.

THE Wexford minor footballers bid to join their seniors in Croke Park on Leinster final day with victory over Offaly in this evening’s semi-final at Wexford Park (7.30pm).

Leitrim 0-17 Wexford 1-10

Wexford 2-7 Cork 1-8

Wexford took revenge for last weekend's National Camogie League final defeat with a 4-12 to 0-14 victory over Cork in today's opening round of the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship at Ballincollig.

Camogie is certainly in a healthy state if today's National League finals at Nowlan Park are anything to go by as a Limerick side trained by former senior hurler Ciaran Carey took a first ever Division 1B title, while Wexford came so agonisngly close to winning the Division 1A encounter before Cork edged them out by a point in a thrilling match.

Seán McCárthaigh, Leixlip

AFTER years of heartache, Wexford have emerged from the wilderness to contest their first camogie league final in 12 years and are seeking their first win in 27 years.