Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Group 1
Clare v Dublin, Meelik GAA (Clare), 17:00
Waterford v Cork, Walsh Park, 17:30
Wexford v Tipperary, Bellefield (Enniscorthy), 14:007
Cork guaranteed automatic progress to the semi-final of the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Camogie Championship by virtue of their hard-fought victory over Waterford at Walsh Park, but it remains all to play for in Group 1 as four of the other five teams battle it out for the two quarter-final berths.
Waterford remain in second on six points and with a healthy score differential while Tipperary, who struck late to deny Wexford are level on five points with Dublin, who let a five-point lead slip late on against Clare to leave Ennis with just a share of the spoils.
With the teams having drawn in their previous clash, it is the fact that the Premier County have scored three more points that puts them ahead.
Despite their reverse, Wexford remain in contention too, while Clare will consider what might have been as they cannot now make it to the last six after two draws and two narrow defeats.
The Clare-Dublin tie at Cusack Park ended in a welter of excitement as the home team stormed back from a five-point deficit after Leah Butler's 56th minute score to snatch a 1-9 to 1-9 draw.
Clare Hehir plundered a goal from the very next attackand Eimear Kelly reduced the margin to the minimum right on the hour. Exchanges were fraught thereafter but it was Clare who found the key score, Lorna McNamara slotting a free in the fifth minute of injury time to bring the sides level.
A brace of McNamara points gave Clare an early advantage but a goal and two points from Aisling O’Neill put the Dubs 1-4 to 0-4 ahead at half-time. It was nip and tuck after the
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