Championship fever spreads as Shannonside eyeing the double

This is not a bad week for Sarah Carey and her boyfriend Tom Condon when it comes to organising their lives around work, sport and son, Nicky.

The Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Camogie Championship has a well-established round-robin format to determine qualifiers to the knockout stages but it is a new concept for hurling, meaning the games have been coming thick and fast in the Carey/Condon household.

Nicky is loving it, of course. He will be two in September and both his parents are dreaming of granting him an All-Ireland medal as a birthday present.