Camogie, Your Chix are on Fire
Talking Balls Comments
Last year Deirdre Fitzpatrick from Limerick received the unanimous vote in the Talking Balls office for being the best lookin’ captain at the launch, but this year DeeFitz has some serious competition. So, we’re offering a free Squareball t-shirt to the first six captains to get in touch. Any more and we’ll give them a discount.
This year the camogie Senior Championship has eight teams with Clare joining the likes of Cork, Tipp and Wexford. Quite a step up for Clare from Junior to Senior. Derry, 2007 Junior champions still compete at Intermediate whilst Antrim’s hopes of a Junior have been badly hit by Jane Adams knee injury.
Sponsor Gala has introduced an award for the Senior Camogie player who delivers the most outstanding performance of the season, as voted for by the public – the Gala Performance Award. The player will win the Gala Performance Award trophy and a 5* luxury weekend break. No doubt the winning player will smuggle all her teammates into the luxury room. We expect no less.
Hopefully under their new leader Joan Flynn the camogie people will get a high profile and there’s signs that it will. Talking Balls hopes that this year’s All Stars will be a bit more salubrious than last time, when the players received no free gear despite O’Neills being a sponsor. A number of players, especially first time nominees felt a bit underwhelmed. Sort it out lads.
Speaking at the launch the other day, Joan Flynn, revealed that RTÉ will be broadcasting some of the senior games and coverage will be included in The Sunday Game. So long as Tony Davis isn’t one of the experts things will be grand.
Joan also said: “Our relationship with the GAA is also crucial. This year we look forward to staging a number of our championship games in county grounds around the country and, of course, to All Ireland finals day here on 13 September in Croke Park.”
