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RTÉ News
04-07-2025
- Climate
- RTÉ News
Camogie quarter-finals: All you need to know
SATURDAY Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior quarter-final Clare v Waterford, Croke Park, 2.30pm Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior relegation final Derry v Wexford, Darver, 2pm SUNDAY Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior quarter-final Tipperary v Kilkenny, Croke Park, 1.15pm TV Live coverage of both quarter-finals on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. ONLINE Score updates and match reports available on RTÉ Sport Online and RTÉ News app. RADIO Score updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport. WEATHER Saturday: Mostly cloudy on Saturday with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle. While a few bright spells will develop, it'll stay rather cloudy overall. Highest temperatures of 16-22C, warmest in the south and east, where it will feel quite mild and humid. Sunday: Cloudy to begin. Brightening up through the afternoon and for the evening with sunny spells and scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 14-19C. Clare v Waterford Waterford go into this as favourites, as regulars at this stage of proceedings and with most of the panel having been involved in the All-Ireland final two years ago. Those that weren't have played in All-Ireland minor finals. Clare are in the second year of a rebuild, and making the last six after reaching the 1B league final is considerable progress for John Carmody's young squad. Beating Wexford and drawing with Limerick enabled them to progress on score difference but they will need to improve on a 20-point defeat by Tipperary last week to advance. Ahead of quarter-final weekend in the camogie championship, @MartyMofficial spoke to some of the players who will be involved — RTÉ GAA (@RTEgaa) June 30, 2025 Waterford had a change of management after the league, with coach Mick Boland taking over from Jerry Wallace. They didn't lose a game in Munster or All-Ireland Championship, a run that included a first ever championship win over Kilkenny, until last weekend's late collapse in Athenry, when they conceded the last six points to Galway, having been level with four minutes of regulation time remaining. That defeat cost them a direct route to the last four but they have a second bite of that particularly cherry. The Banner will look to O'Loughlin, Clare Hehir and Ziyan Spillane to provide leadership, and their defence in particularly will be tested by a high scoring Waterford attack in which Niamh Rocket is excelling, along with former player of the year Beth Carton and Annie Fitzgerald, with Lorraine Bray provides the energy from the middle. Derry v Wexford Wexford would probably have had designs on a place in the knockouts stages, but find themselves in a relegation final. Having lost to the Clare, the wheels really fell off the wagon after falling short against Limerick. There were two heavy defeats by Tipperary and Cork and the only positive you could find was that they knew their fate before last weekend's loss to the Rebels. Derry were down 10 first-team players from last year, when they retained senior status comfortably, so were up against it from the start. They gave up four goals in the Division 2 league decider against Offaly and that defensive frailty left them vulnerable against Waterford, Galway and Kilkenny. Neither side can be full of confidence but in a one-off game to determine relegation or salvation, the team that can park recent history the best will survive. Tipperary v Kilkenny These old rivals got off to chastening starts but rebounded well to get to this juncture. They both began the year without a number of familiar faces – Mary Ryan, Cáit Devane and Nicole Walsh for Tipp, the Walsh cousins Miriam and Grace and Julianne Malone for Kilkenny – but their production lines ensure that they should always be competitive. Kilkenny fell to a first ever championship loss to Waterford but beating Dublin, who defeated them in last year's All-Ireland quarter-final, meant they were going to advance from their group. They went toe to toe with Galway in the first half before falling away, but Tommy Shefflin has been working on some different set-ups, including playing Katie Power in a deeper role and the Noresiders should be getting closer to gel now. A second Croke Park defeat in a row would be tough for the Stripeywomen to take, but Tipp will start as slight favourites. They lost by 18 points to Cork, which must have been a huge shock but their attack really clicked into gear subsequently against the Wexford, Limerick and Clare. It was a good response as they became accustomed to being without cruciate victims, Eimear McGrath and Clodagh Quirke. With Grace O'Brien, Karen Kennedy, Karin Blair and Mairéad Eviston standing out, they racked up 15-62 in the process of securing the runner-up berth behind the All-Ireland champions. Apart from Power, Kilkenny can look to the likes of Laura Murphy, Caoimhe Keher Murtagh Aoife Prendergast.
RTÉ News
20-06-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
All-Ireland camogie championship: All you need to know
SATURDAY Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Senior Championship Group 1 Cork v Clare, SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, 2pm Limerick v Tipperary, Cappamore GAA, 1pm Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Senior Championship Group 2 Kilkenny v Galway, UPMC Nowlan Park, 4pm Waterford v Dublin, Walsh Park, 3pm ONLINE You'll find score updates and match reports on RTÉ Sport Online and RTÉ News app. Kilkennyv Galway is live on Camogie Association YouTube channel. RADIO Score updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport. WEATHER Saturday: While warm sunshine is expected, a scattering of showers will occur too, some heavy and possibly thundery. Top temperatures of 19 to 25 degrees, warmest across the eastern half of the country, all in a light to moderate southwest wind. For more, visit GROUP 1 Cork v Clare Clare are clearly benefiting from John Carmody's decision last season to blood a number of young players. They have reached a Very League Division 1B final this year and are in contention for qualification to the knockout stages of the All-Ireland Championship. They are not expected to beat champions Cork in the Páirc, which isn't to say they can't, but every score will count in their battle for a place in the last six. At present, the Banner lie in second in the table on a vastly superior score difference to Limerick, who they drew with. Limerick have already played Cork, however. As a result, Clare have 32 points in hand on their neighbours, so a competitive outing will put them on the brink of progression. Limerick v Tipperary Limerick are under a little more pressure than Clare in terms of making the quarter-finals due to their vastly inferior score difference. Cork beat them by 38 points in their first round and it said a lot for what Joe Quaid has begun to build that they bounced back to beat Wexford and then draw with Clare, thanks to a late equaliser by their totem, Caoimhe Costelloe. The level of that first round defeat leaves them with a steep mountain to climb but if they can account for Tipperary, who are a point back in fourth with one game less played, they will be through. It would count as a shock, given the level both teams have been operating at for most of the past decade or so and especially for the past five years. Victory would also put Tipp through, having beaten Wexford by 32 points after losing to Cork by 18. GROUP 2 Kilkenny v Galway Group 2 looks far more straightforward than Group 1, with three teams level at the top on six points. This game pitches second against third on score difference, but this is Kilkenny's last game and they have already lost to Waterford, while Galway possess a 100% record. If Waterford beat Dublin in the other game, these two will be assured of qualification but this result will be significant with direct progression to the semi-final, or seeding in the quarter-finals at stake. Waterford v Dublin Dublin's mission is straightforward. Anything other than victory and last year's All-Ireland semi-finalists will not emerge from what was a very difficult group. They lost by six points to Galway and five to Kilkenny, so have been very competitive but now take on a Waterford side that opened their campaign with a seven-point victory over the Cats and followed up with a facile home triumph over Derry. With Galway still on the Déise's set list, they will want to make sure of qualification this weekend.
