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BRIEGE CORKERY WILL not be the only player who has recently become a mother striding into battle in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship “‘I don’t turn off from camogie but now, there’s something else there that’s more important’”

LIMERICK SKIPPER Declan Hannon admits he’s thought about what he’d say if he’s tasked with making an historic All-Ireland-winning speech tomorrow, but insists his mind “Skipper Declan Hannon happy to lead youthful Limerick from the back”

Kilkenny 1-10 Galway 1-7 A GOAL IN the 48th minute by Katie Power finally separated Kilkenny from a Galway side that left nothing in the “Kilkenny have the Power to deny Galway and book place in All-Ireland final”

Cork 0-21 Tipperary 0-9 A SECOND-HALF power play by Cork ensured that their place in the All-Ireland senior camogie final was assured with a quarter “Corkery returns after two-year absence as holders Cork march into All-Ireland final”

KILMACUD CROKES LIFTED the All-Ireland sevens hurling trophy on home soil after defeating Tipperary’s Portroe in this evening’s senior final in Stillorgan. Managed by Anthony “Anthony Daly’s Kilmacud lift All-Ireland hurling sevens title on home soil”

IT’S HARD TO believe now, but there was a time in the not too distant past when the Galway hurlers were seen as a soft touch. “How did Galway shed the ‘gutless’ tag to become hurling’s top dogs?”

1. “To be a Monaghan person last week was to think a lot about potential, even without realising you were doing it. All our lives, “Limerick’s ‘biggest let-down’, a powerful story of struggle and survival and more of the week’s best sportswriting”

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IN THE 58TH minute of yesterday evening’s All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-final between Cork and Tipperary in Semple Stadium, legendary dual star Briege Corkery made “‘It was funny I didn’t miss it last year but absence makes the heart grow fonder’”

Galway 0-21 Kilkenny 0-14 Declan Rooney reports from Croke Park GALWAY CLAIMED A third All-Ireland minor title in four years as ten points from Donal “Perfect start to the day for Galway as minors collect third All-Ireland hurling crown in four years”