Sixth the best for Laura Treacy after 'isolating, low days'

Laura Treacy thought last year's victory was the sweetest but contemplating how Sunday’s Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie final against Galway had unfolded and how for a while there was a worry she would not be involved at all, the Killeagh stalwart determined that medal number six might just be the most valuable of them all.

There would have been few arguments about Ashling Thompson’s selection as official player of the match but Treacy was monumental and was surely in the reckoning. It’s what we have come to expect from a player that has just concluded her 13th season.

She began life at this level as a teenage corner-back following her introduction by Paudie Murray in 2012 and progressed to full-back after Anna Geary’s retirement.

Stepping into the shoes of Gemma O’Connor, she has really blossomed as a player in recent years as a ball-playing, creative centre-back with the game knowledge to cut off potential danger with sublime positioning and movement but also the necessary ruggedness to force turnovers in the collision zone.

The 29-year-old has been there and seen it all but it doesn’t get better than this.

"I said in an interview with RTÉ last year after we winning the All-Ireland that I thought that was going to be the sweetest All-Ireland ever but I think they get sweeter as they go on," says a smiling Treacy.

"I guess you put so much work into one specific thing. Our lives are camogie from when we go back early January until now. Sleep, food, work revolves around it. Family. Friends. So to get a reward at the end of the day, it makes it all so special."

It has not been a straightforward year for her, even if Cork were moving serenely through the championship before Galway provided them with the stiffest of