Dicksboro's Caoimhe Dowling eager to end Kilkenny's barren run in All-Ireland club championship

Five years after winning their first Kilkenny title, Dicksboro have a chance to scale the highest peak in Sunday's AIB All-Ireland senior club camogie final showdown with three-in-a-row chasers Sarsfields.

No Kilkenny side has taken the club crown since St Lachtain's won their third in a row back in 2006, an oddity in an era when the county team has returned to the winners' enclosure after a long bleak spell in the noughties.

The Kilkenny city outfit - known locally as 'the 'Boro' - were pipped in the Leinster decider by eventual All-Ireland champions Oulart-The Ballagh in 2021.

Last month, they banished the demons of that loss, overcoming St Vincent's in the provincial final, in a game in which Dicksboro's county star Aoife Prendergast and St Vincent's attacker Aisling Maher donned body cams.

For Caoimhe Dowling, the weekend's All-Ireland final, aside from the obvious prize up for grabs, is a chance to broaden the horizons of everyone connected with the club.

"Thomastown had a great run, when they were winning county finals and getting to Leinster finals. It's nice to get that bit further and get to the (All-Ireland) final," Dowling told RTÉ Sport.

"It's great to be able to look at the younger girls and boys in the club - we're an amalgamated club - and say we're putting that tradition in place, where this is something that we can do.

"For younger girls coming through onto the team, this is the kind of goal we set for ourselves. Where we're not just competitive in Kilkenny, but being competitive in Leinster and in an All-Ireland series as well."

Asked to account for their rise, Dowling stresses the blossoming of a core group of players, who have played together up through the age grades, overcoming setbacks and learning as they