CHAMPIONS! – 2022 Intermediate All-Ireland Camogie Championship

August 7, 2022

| No Comments

Galway are the 2022 All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Champions!

Galway v Cork: Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship Final

Venue: Croke Park
Date: 7 Aug 2022, 2pm
Referee: Gavin Donegan (Dublin)

FT: Galway 0-13 Cork 0-11
Player of the match: Lisa Casserly

**Galway – 2022 All-Ireland Intermediate Champions**
**Back Row (L-R):** Katie Manning (Mullagh), Cora Kenny (Sarsfields), Ciara Donohue (Mullagh), Grainne O’Neill (Pearses), Ally Hesnan (Shamrocks), Siobhán Divilly (Salthill-Knocknacarra), Katie Gilchrist (Shamrocks), Alannah Kelly (Portumna), Sinéad Coleman (Abbeyknockmoy), Catherine Hanley (Davitts), Shannon Corcoran (Sarsfields), Eva Gilmore (Castlegar), Olwen Rabbitte (Athenry), Megan Gannon (Abbeyknockmoy), Chloe Farragher (Davitts), Elaine Dolphin (Ardrahan), Laura Kelly (Salthill-Knocknacarra), Katie Anna Porter (Davitts), Tegan Canning VC (Mullagh)
**Front Row (L-R):** Tara Ruttledge (Portumna), Ciara Hickey (Davitts), Tara Lawrence (Oranmore-Maree), Caoimhe Starr (Killimor), Jennifer Hughes (Carnmore), Fiona Ryan (Ballinderreen), Lisa Casserly (captain, Ballinderreen), Sarah Lyons (Kiltormer), Niamh McPeake (Liam Mellows), Caoimhe Reidy (Craughwell), Aisling Donnellan (Davitts), Niamh McInerney (Shamrocks), Emma Madden (Salthill/Knocknacarra) and Laura Loughnane (Eyrecourt)
(Photo credit Don Soules Photography)

That winning feeling! Galway Intermediate team, 2022 All Ireland Intermediate Champions.

View full series of match photos – photo credit: Don Soules Photography

Match Report

by Daragh Ó Conchúir at Croke Park

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 ankle of Katie Anna Porter who cleared.

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 Laura Loughnane, had a forward clearly in good order with herself as she fired three points from play.

With Gilchrist finding the target from five frees and Tegan Canning and Niamh McPeake also getting on the scoresheet, that was four of Murray’s six starting forwards doing the business.

Cork had three, Casey slotting four frees and the lively Lauren Homan (two) and outstanding Katelyn Hickey splitting the posts also.

Both teams played with sweepers – Ciara Hickey for Galway and Ashling Moloney for Cork – and the pair were largely effective as goal opportunities were at a premium and they mopped up far too many wayward deliveries.

It was 0-10 to 0-7 at half-time but Cork resumed with a pep in their step and already had half a goal chance when Homan slotted her third point but as the game wore on, things became more clogged around the middle third.

The Maroons were able to bring on a player of the calibre of Kelly, who was central to them getting over the line with a goal and two points after coming off the bench.

Within seconds of her 40th minute introduction, she set up McPeake for a lovely score but Cork had their own depth in defence and Rachel O’Shea finished very well for the score of the day that began in the Rebel defence and was advanced spectacularly by Hickey for the Carrigaline finisher to score.

But Galway would not let Cork any closer than touching distance. And that was far enough away.

GALWAY: F Ryan, C Starr, C Donohue, C Hickey, K Manning, L Casserly, K A Porter, A Hesnan, J Hughes, N McInerney, K Gilchrist, T Canning, O Rabbitte, N McPeake, L Loughnane. Subs: L Kelly for Canning, S Corcoran for McInerney (both 40); C Kenny for Loughnane (55); A Kelly for Gilchrist (60)

CORK: S Beausang, A Moloney, N O’Leary, G Hannon, J O’Leary, K Kilcommins, L O’Sullivan, L Callanan, R Harty, J Casey, K Hickey, S Hutchinson, L Homan, H Ryan, C O’Callaghan. Subs: M Murphy for Hutchinson (29); R O’Shea for C O’Callaghan (39); A O’Callaghan for Ryan (59)

SCORERS FOR GALWAY: K Gilchrist 0-7(6fs); L Loughnane 0-3; N McPeake 0-2; T Canning 0-1

SCORERS FOR CORK: J Casey 0-6(5fs); L Homan 0-3; K Hickey, R O’Shea 0-1 each