Many ingredients in the Cork mix as they look to regain All-Ireland Senior camogie title

In the ever-increasing era of control, the personality of sports people within a team setting is becoming harder to unearth.

As crowds of children and adults swarmed around the players at the Cork Camogie Grounds ahead of the Leesiders' appearance in the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland final against Waterford at Croke Park tomorrow, the various personalities shone through.

Take Amy Lee, last year’s captain when they lost to Denise Gaule’s brilliantly-pointed free at the death. Falling short in the last two All-Irelands and the last four national deciders straight doesn’t weigh on her mind. Neither does making a rare error that led to a Galway goal in the semi-final.

It’s just the way she is wired. Indeed Lee is probably more stressed about how Man United will fare in the year ahead. The Devils have always been her club, even though she lived in London until she was 10.

The fact her family and close-knit circle of friends outside the Cork panel aren’t Gaelic games nuts might be a contributory factor to her laidback nature.

"I go home, my mother is like, 'How is training?’" Lee explains. "I’ll be like, ‘Grand,’ and she will say, ‘Do you want something to eat?’ ‘I got fed at training.’ Off up to bed. Hasn’t a notion. Loves going to the matches. Loves being a part of the buzz. She can’t wait to go to the All-Ireland final. She won’t ask me about it. What a great way to be?"

Laura Hayes is another with a confidence rooted in being able to put it all in proper context. Her former manager, Paudie Murray once compared her to Briege Corkery. For sure, there was an element of that coming from an ability to raid forward from wing-back to get a score.

The mindset of absolute seriousness while playing and training being coupled with an element of