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A homecoming event for the Galway Senior Camogie team will take place at Clarinbridge GAA grounds this evening (Monday). Gates will open from 6pm.

Galway 1-8 0-18 Cork Group 1 Round 1

Galway’s opening round defeat to Cork would have stung, but the Tribeswomen have channelled that disappointment to produce some of their finest performances since.

“That was some way to win it?”

Cathal Murray has spent the best part of a decade trying to make Galway camogie better. The remarkable thing is that, nine seasons on, he still talks about the job with the enthusiasm of someone in his first year.

There has never been a more decorated Galway Gaelic games player across the men’s and women’s senior inter-county codes than Ailish O'Reilly. Four All-Ireland senior medals for a player who on Sunday will be chasing a coveted five. Nobody has collected more senior Celtic Crosses while starting every victorious final for a team in maroon.

Galway and Cork have become the defining rivalry of modern camogie, repeatedly pushing one another to new standards on the sport’s biggest stage. Seven of the last nine All-Ireland senior titles have been shared between the west and Leeside. On Sunday, one of them will add another chapter to a rivalry that continues to shape the current era of the game.

There are certain weekends in Galway when the city seems to breathe with one set of lungs. This is one of them.

Galway take on Kilkenny in the All-Ireland semi-final this Saturday afternoon in Semple Stadium.

Galway's senior camogie team face a make-or-break clash with Tipperary at Kenny Park this Sunday in their quest to make it directly into the All-Ireland semi-final.