PREVIEW: Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Championship Final
For the second year running Galway and Kilkenny will battle it out to see who is crowned the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior champions in what will be a unique winter All-Ireland Final.
Galway and Kilkenny set for Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final this Saturday
The final trophy in the 2020 Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Camogie Championships will be presented this Saturday night under the lights of Croke Park when Galway and Kilkenny battle it out for the All-Ireland Senior Championship title
“It’s not about last year, it’s not about next year, it’s about 2020 to us” – Kilkenny’s Anne Dalton
Having three young children at home under the age of two ensures that Anne Dalton has had plenty to occupy her in the build-up to Saturday’s Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Championship Final.
“We’re massively privileged, a lot of people haven’t had the opportunity to socialise like we did over the past couple of months” – Down’s Niamh Mallon
Focusing on the short-term proved the key as Down put a number of recent disappointments behind them to end a six-year wait for Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Championship silverware by winning the Intermediate title at Kingspan Breffni on Saturday.
Derek’s dominoes fall perfectly into place
Down manager Derek Dunne maintains that his charges are ready to make the step up to Senior competition after a power-packed second-half display finally saw off a youthfully exuberant Antrim side with a very bright future by 4-16 to 2-10 in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate Championship Final at Kingspan Breffni on Saturday.
Difficult Year Ends on a High for Armagh
The year that is mercifully coming to a conclusion will not be remembered fondly by many, for a variety of different reasons linked directly or otherwise to a global pandemic.
For Armagh Camogie however, the 0-19 to 3-7 triumph over a resilient Cavan in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Premier Junior Championship Final at Kingspan Breffni on Saturday was a welcome ray of light.
REPORT: Mallon magic propels Down to Nirvana
Niamh Mallon illustrated the full breadth of her wonderful talents as a well balanced Down made experience count, producing a power-packed second-half performance to win the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate Championship for the first time in 22 years at Kingspan Breffni.
REPORT: Donnelly Destroys Cavan’s Double Dreams and Lays Ghost of 2016 to Rest
It was unlucky 13 for Cavan as Ciara Donnelly shot the lights out to banish Armagh’s nightmare of losing the decider of four years ago and finally become Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate champions.
RESULTS – Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate & Premier Junior Championships Finals – 05.12.2020
Results – Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Championships – 05.12.2020
Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate & Premier Junior Championships Titles on the Line on Saturday
4 sides will battle it out this Saturday for coveted All-Ireland trophies in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Intermediate and Premier Junior Championships Finals.
“We mightn’t have the volume of people but we have pure quality of people” – Cavan’s Erinn Galligan
Erinn Galligan’s personality explodes from the other end of the line. It is easy to understand why she is captain of the Cavan Camogie team aiming to make up for lost time after a decade away from competition by bagging a second All-Ireland title in three weeks.
Camogie in COVID “a godsend” for teacher and Down hero McMullan
She was a long time gone but the game never left her. Home couldn’t be extracted from the DNA.
