Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 1 Final: Galway 0-16 Kilkenny 2-8

A majestic performance by Anne Dalton gave Kilkenny a 0-12 to 0-9 victory over rivals Cork in the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 1 semi-final in Carriganore.

Kilkenny captain Shelly Farrell was barely able to speak after her side ground out a three-point victory over Galway in a titanic Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie semi-final at Semple Stadium on Saturday night.

There was additional focus on Galway as they got the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Camogie Championship underway with a 1-16 to 0-9 win against Clare at Pearse Stadium on Saturday evening.

A LOT of eyes were on Galway as they got the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Camogie Championship under way with a 1-16 to 0-9 win against Clare at Pearse Stadium.

Kilkenny captain Michelle Quilty believes their semi-final extra-time victory over Galway proves they have learned lessons from their last All-Ireland final defeat to Cork.

League champions Galway were the big winners as the Liberty Insurance senior camogie championship got under way with two games in the ultra-competitive Group 1 and one tie from Group 2.

Cork 2-12 Kilkenny 1-09

Cork 2-12 Kilkenny 1-09

Kilkenny 4-12 Galway 3-07

Waterford United 2 Avondale United 1

The post office at Carrigaholt in Co Clare has reopened — but only because a local farmer was able to take the postmaster through flood waters from his home, one of six left cut off by the sea.

Galway 1-9 Kilkenny 0-7

Waterford United 1 Manchester United XI 2

Mick O’Dwyer is aiming to entice all players capable of performing at inter-county level to wear the Clare jersey.

Liam Rushe half-jokingly admits the multitude of cruciate injuries in the Dublin hurling camp left him wondering if he will be next.

Yet another cruciate knee ligament injury has sidelined a Dublin senior hurler - this time it is promising wing back-cum-midfielder Martin Quilty.

Happy days for the Galway senior hurlers in Portlaoise on Saturday afternoon after this Allianz Hurling League Division 1A relegation replay, their top division status maintained for another year, Dublin demoted to 1B just a year after being crowned champions.

Galway 4-21 Dublin 0-19

The Kilkenny team to play Clare in the Allianz Hurling League semi-final at Semple Stadium, Thurles, tomorrow at 2pm shows a number of positional and personnel changes from the side that defeated Galway in their last League outing.

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

CORK produced possibly the most complete performance of the season so far when they blitzed previously unbeaten Galway 2-14 to 0-8 in the All-Ireland senior camogie championship third round at Salthill.

FOR the second successive year, Sean Buckley dons the captain’s armband on Munster senior football final day.

THE Health Service Executive has demanded urgent answers from staff in Cork and Limerick after it was revealed that several family members of HSE employees were recruited to well-paid temporary jobs without an open competition.

CORK’S camogie team repeated the feat of the county’s hurlers a fortnight ago by defeating old rivals Tipperary.

WHITEHAVEN, Egremont and Gosforth might just as easily have been Quilty, Spanish Point and Mullagh, or maybe Courtown, Ballygarret and Knockbrandon. Or, if the truth be told, any shy, idyllic backwater on this island.

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.

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.

The Australian federal government said today it will clear away hurdles that have stalled a nationwide fire alert telephone system, after thousands of people were caught off-guard by the deadliest wildfires in the country’s history.

A powerful second-half performance booked Offaly's place in the All-Ireland junior camogie championship final as the Faithful County beat Waterford 1-14 to 1-3 at Leahy Park in Cashel today.

Kilkenny 3-11 Galway 0-17

THE mother of a brain-damaged boy yesterday claimed a health board attempted to portray her as unfit in a bid to limit the amount of damages it was set to pay out.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE are anxious about the fitness of Peter O’Dwyer ahead of Sunday’s AIB Munster Club SFC final against Stradbally in Thurles.

Stradbally 1-11 Tramore 0-8