Overview

• Galway secured their fifth All-Ireland senior camogie title and first since 2021 by edging Cork by a point at Croke Park.
• Hannah Looney’s red card just before half-time reduced Cork to 14 players and shifted momentum in Galway’s favour.
• Captain Carrie Dolan converted her seventh free in the 63rd minute to clinch the championship in dramatic fashion.
• The season’s player-led “skortgate” protest culminated in a May Special Congress vote that approved optional shorts.
• A crowd of 28,795 underlined growing spectator engagement and organisers’ efforts to boost camogie’s profile.