Galway confirm team for All-Ireland camogie final

Cathal Murray has named his team to face Cork on Sunday

Galway manager Cathal Murray during the Glen Dimplex Camogie All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final match between Galway and Tipperary at UPMC Nowlan Park in Kilkenny. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Galway have named an unchanged team for Sunday’s All-Ireland senior camogie final against reigning champions Cork.

Manager Cathal Murray has kept faith with the starting team that scraped unconvincingly past Tipp by the minimum in last month’s All-Ireland semi-final.

That semi-final Galway line-up contained a number of positional switches compared to how they appeared in the match programme.

Niamh Hanniffy, named at midfield, operated at centre-back, with No.6 Áine Keane moving in the opposite direction. The other named midfielder, seven-time All-Star Niamh Kilkenny, played the entire hour at left half-forward, with No.12 Olwen Rabbitte going to the middle of the field.

Half-forward Aoife Donohue started at corner-forward, her slot on the 40 filled by No.15 Ailish O’Reilly.

GALWAY: S Healy; R Hanniffy, R Black, D Higgins; AM Starr, Á Keane, C Hickey; N Hanniffy, N Kilkenny; A Donohue, N McPeake, O Rabbitte; C Dolan, N Mallon, A O’Reilly.

SUBS: F Ryan, A Kelly, K Manning, R Kelly, A Hesnan, J Hughes, S Rabbitte, O McGrath, N Niland, M Dillion, N McInerney, J Daly, A Lynskey, A Barry, C Kelly.