Galway edge out Cork to take intermediate camogie crown

Galway had just the more energy to win an absolute arm wrestle with Cork and with that, the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship title.

The second half was a tight and tense affair, which would always suit the team with the advantage and that was the Tribeswomen, who began it with a three-point lead and won by two.

Cork did not help themselves, shooting 11 wides over the hour, but some of those should be credited to the fantastic defensive play of the Galway defence in which Ciara Donohue and Lisa Casserly were colossal figures.

Galway were reduced to 14 in the 52nd minute when Kate Manning was shown a second yellow card in six minutes, for a high tackle, but Cathal Murray's troops rarely looked in danger of conceding a goal.

That said, they were a little fortunate when Joanne Casey surprisingly elected to shoot low from a free just outside the 20m line in the 56th minute, with two points between the sides.

Just a minute earlier, Stephanie Beausang dived bravely at the feet of Laura Kelly to deny the Galway sub a goal and a score at the other end would have fed the gradual momentum in the Rebels’ direction.

While reducing it to the minimum seemed the obvious move, Casey went for goal and the sliotar ricocheted off the stick of goalie Fiona Ryan onto Casserly’s left ankle. The skipper gratefully gathered possession to clear.

Three minutes later, Katie Gilchrist was slotting her seventh point of the day with her last act of the game and the margin was three.

Casey split the posts for her sixth in the third minute of injury time from a tight angle but time ran out on Trevor Coleman’s team.

There wasn’t a whole lot between them in a more open first half either but Galway were just a little more economic, and in