Waterford Camogie Champions Gailltír fell short in their latest bid for Munster Camogie glory on a final scoreline of Gailltír 2-09 v 2-13 St Finbarr’s.
The Waterford champions shot out of the blocks from the opening whistle playing with the breeze in the first half. Points from Laoise Forrest, Molly Comerford and Ali Ferguson put them into a 3 point lead after 10 minutes and things got even better for the Dunmore Road side 3 minutes later when Annie Fitzgerald broke though the cover and shot into the top corner of the net for the games opening goal. Gailltír leading 1-3 to no score after 14 minutes.
This seemed to rouse the reigning Munster Champions however and Sorcha McCartan took a hold of proceedings getting the Cork side on the scoresheet followed by points from Liz O’Donovan and another from McCartan.
Laoise Forrest managed to stem the flow with a long range point for Gailltír but the Cork side came again and when Orla Cahalane got behind the cover to rattle the Gailltír net things started to look bleak for the Waterford side. A further 4 points in a row from St Finbarrs before half time and a second goal courtesy of Ella Wiggington Barrett saw them lead on a half time scoreline of Gailltir 1-5 v 2-7 St Finbarr’s.
The second half saw Cahalane continue the scoring for the Cork side and Gailltir responding via Forrrest, but further scores including another from Wiggington Barrett seemed to have closed out the game for the reigning champions. However a commendable late rally from Gailltir saw them hit 1-1 without reply via a wonderful point from Molly Comerford and a goal from Emma Fitzgerald.
It wasn’t to be however and the final score of the game came from Kate Wall for St Finbarr’s to give them a well deserved victory.
Gailltír manager Darren Cooney spoke after the game and outlined that although disappointed with the result he was immensely proud of his players and how they fought to the final whistle.
Many of the players will now focus their attention on next weekends Munster football replay against Aghada.
