All-Ireland camogie club finals: All you need to know

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SATURDAY

AIB All-Ireland Junior B Club Camogie Final

Éire Óg Carrickmore (Tyrone) v St Kevin's (Louth), NGDC Abbotstown, 12.45pm.

AIB All-Ireland Junior Club Camogie Final

Brídíní Óga Glenravel (Antrim) v St Dominic's (Roscommon), Donaghmore Ashbourne GAA, 2pm

SUNDAY

AIB All-Ireland Intermediate Club Camogie Final

Ballincollig (Cork) v Camross (Laois), Croke Park, 2pm.

AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Final

Athenry (Galway) v St Finbarr's (Cork), Croke Park, 4.15pm.

TV

Watch the Camogie club finals on Sunday with RTÉ Sport. Ballingcollig v Camross from 1.55pm in the intermediate final on RTÉ Player followed by the senior final of Athenry v St Finbarr's from 4pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.

RADIO

Follow updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday and Sunday Sport.

ONLINE

Follow the Senior final via a live blog on the RTÉ News App and on rte.ie/sport.

WEATHER

Saturday will be dry and breezy to start with bright spells. Cloud from the west will move in early on with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Throughout the day, this rain will gradually spread across the country, with heavy falls at times bringing spot flooding. Highest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees in fresh to strong and gusty south to southwest winds, with gales on Atlantic coasts.

Indications currently suggest a wet and blustery Sunday with further outbreaks of rain, with the heaviest falls over parts of the west and southwest. Highest temperatures of 11 to 14 degrees in fresh to strong southwesterly winds. Rain will gradually clear to the southeast.

AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Final

Athenry (Galway) v St Finbarr's (Cork)

Athenry scaled the mountain out west for the first time since 2009, taking out Sarsfields, the All-Ireland champions who had secured a fourth title in six campaigns 12 months ago, thanks to two goals from Eimear Keane.

They now have a chance of keeping the title in Galway and adding to their sole victory of 1977. But they have lost seven finals, so will be desperate to improve that conversion rate in Sunday's 4pm throw-in.

Athenry possess tremendous experience in the legendary Therese Maher (now Donohue) and Jessica Gill, a fellow former All-Star and goalscorer in the semi-final victory over 2023 champions Dicksboro (Kilkenny). Two-time All-Star and 2025 Player of the Year nominee, Dervla Higgins is the spiritual leader though, an inspirational captain. Fellow Galway All-Ireland winner Sabina Rabbitte, daughter of manager Joe, is a huge threat in attack.

Meanwhile, while it is a first club final for St Finbarr’s, there are no concerns about experience or calibre.

Sorcha McCartan is their leading scorer and was player of the match when they defeated St Catherine’s to retain their county title. Kate Wall broke De La Salle hearts with a late goal in the Munster final, finishing with 2-04 in the two-point success.

Their All-Ireland semi-final was even tighter and more dramatic and this time, it was Ciara Golden that proved the match winner after two periods of extra time and a 45s shootout on the cards, denying Loughgiel Shamrocks (Antrim).

Orlaith Cahalane excelled throughout, along with sister Méabh and with Gráinne recovered from the Achilles tendon injury suffered in the build-up to the 2024 All-Ireland in training with Cork, the family had four sisters involved at the final whistle as Kate also entered the fray.

Athenry: Laura Freeney; Tarron Kilkenny, Kate Screene, Niamh Feeney; Lisa Casserly, Dervla Higgins, Sinead Feeney; Isabel Fleet, Olwen Rabbitte; Kayla Madden, Kerri O'Driscoll, Eimear Keane; Eva McGlynn, Sabina Rabbitte, Clodagh Burke.

St Finbarr's: Ciara Hurley; Stephanie Punch, Aisling Egan, Grainne Cahalane; Aoife O Neill, Meabh Cahalane, Sofia Daly; Ciara Golden, Aisling Shannon; Sorcha McCartan, Kate Wall, Keeva McCarthy; Orlaith Cahalane, Nicole Olden, Hannah O Leary.

AIB All-Ireland Intermediate Club Camogie Final

Ballincollig (Cork) v Camross (Laois)

Remarkably, Ballincollig are the first Cork team to reach a final outside of the senior club championship. Mike O’Brien’s charges ensured their return to senior status when overcoming Ballygarvan by four points, skipper Linda Dorgan and fellow veteran Leah Weste shining along with this year’s Cork U16 captain, Leah Hannigan providing a significant cameo, scoring five points off the bench to be named player of the match.

A strong second half performance that included a brace of goals from Hannigan turned the Munster final against Moycarkey Borris (Tipperary), while it was Weste and Dorgan that proved the driving force in the hard-fought defeat of Eglish (Tyrone) in the All-Ireland semi-final, and Hannigan shaking the opposition rigging once more.

Camross are the first Laois side to reach the final since Harps completed a three-in-a-row in 2008. Arien Delaney’s squad ended a 24-year wait to return to the provincial top table when cruising to a 12-point victory over Na Fianna. That was their fourth game on the trot, a sequence that included dethroning Leinster champions St Brigid’s to secure county honours for the first time in four years.

Laois star Aimee Collier is a key contributor but while in charge of frees in county colours, yields to former long-serving O’Moore captain Sarah-Anne Fitzgerald for those duties when it comes to the club. Collier was crowned Camogie’s Player of the Year for the Premier Junior code the night before Camross won the Leinster title, Kirsten Keenan ripping the Meath representatives apart with four goals

They had to work much harder against Killimor (Galway) to clear the penultimate obstacle, before chiselling out a five-point success. Gráinne Delaney was brilliant, slotting five points from play, and an Erin Walsh goal kept the Tribeswomen at bay.

Ballincollig: Ana Hartnett; Aoife Cotter, Miriam Healy, Cara O'Sullivan; Orla Keating, Leah Weste, Ella Hickey; Ailish Scanlon, Susanna Healy; Keeley Goulding, Linda Dorgan, Olivia O'Leary; Sorcha McCarthy, Tara Goulding, Leah Hannigan.

Camross: Niamh Dollard; Mairead Burke, Aisling Burke, Fiona Scully; Aoife Collier, Donnagh Mortimer, Ella Cuddy; Luisne Delaney, Aimee Collier; Leah Daly, Grainne Delaney, Andrea Scully; Erin Walsh, Sarah-Anne Fitzgerald, Kirsten Keenan.

Watch the Camogie club finals on Sunday with RTÉ Sport. Ballingcollig v Camross from 1.55pm in the intermediate final on RTÉ Player followed by the senior final of Athenry v St Finbarr's from 4pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player