Ursula Jacob: "I think there’s a strong case now for it just being ‘hurling’ across the board"

For Jacob, there’s a real concern as well as an upside that this year’s camogie final is another contest between two of the Big Three.

CHANGE IN NAME: Ursula Jacob believes there is a strong case for camogie to be called 'hurling' across the board. Picture: Maxwells

Just as there is at least a generation that wouldn’t know that Pat Spillane was once a marvellous footballer, you can forget or even be unaware that before you knew her from the TV, Ursula Jacob was a glorious hurler.

In 2011, the week after Stephen Cluxton kicked that defining free to win Dublin a long-waited All Ireland, Jacob won her second in 12 months, scoring 1-5 of Wexford’s 2-7 in a two-point win over Galway.