Miriam Walsh: 'I just took on my player. I heard the crack. I knew I was in bother'

“Matthew Twomey, the Cork camogie manager texted me. Niamh Kilkenny of Galway. That will tell you the togetherness in camogie."

Kilkenny's Miriam Walsh celebrates after the game with Sarah Crowley after the 2022 All-Ireland quarter-final victory over Tipperary. Picture: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

Even as she put herself through the torturously lonely grind of recovery, Miriam Walsh’s mindset oscillated between determination and doubt.

The endeavour away from the limelight she credited with the improvements in her game that earned her a third All-Star in 2022 and saw her crowned Player of the Year, having garnered her third Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie medal that season, remained a constant, however.