Tipp aiming to build on 2018 progress

Published: Thu 17 Jan 2019, 10:13 AM

Last updated: Thu 17 Jan 2019, 10:14 AM

By Rose Mannion

TIPPERARY v CORK

The Ragg

Sunday 20^th January

Throw-in @ 2.00pm.

Referee: Ray Kelly (Kildare)

The inter-county camogie season gets underway next Sunday (January 20^th) when the 2019 Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League getting under way.

Ballinahinch's Bill Mullaney returns for his second year at the helm of both the senior and the intermediate teams and once again Niamh Lillis from Drom & Inch will be joining him as well as Cian Treacy (Thurles Sarsfields) and Carmel Bradshaw (Ballina) as selectors, with Dinny Ferncombe (Holycross), Eddie Costello (Drom & Inch) and Paddy Quinlan, strength and conditioning coach, also part of the back-room team.

Tipperary couldn't have been given a stiffer task as they welcome All Ireland champions Cork to the Ragg for their opening game on Sunday.

The Premier girls will also host Galway a week later before having a bye in round three, finishing up with back to back away games against Wexford and Waterford on Sunday 17^th & 24^th respectively with the top two teams progressing to the semi-finals on 10^th March with the final pencilled is as a curtain-raiser to the men's hurling league final on Sunday 24^th March.

“All teams in the group will be confident of taking points off each other,” admitted manager Bill Mullaney looking ahead to the 2019 competition.

Tipperary Senior & Intermediate Camogie panel: Clodagh Horgan, Sarah Delaney (Boherlahan-Dualla), Julieanne Burke, Megan Ryan, Nicole Walsh (Borris-Ileigh), Ciara Houlihan, Caoimhe Maher, Ciara McKeogh, Gemma Grace, Jenny Grace (Burgess/Duharra), Orla O’Dwyer, Aine O’Dwyer, Aisling Farrell, Aoife O’Brien, (Cashel), Cáit Devane, Clodagh Quirke, Eimear Loughman, Casey Hennessy (Clonoulty/Rossmore), Aoife McGrath, Niamh Treacy, Caoimhe Burke, Miriam Campion, Christine Brennan (Drom & Inch), Jean Kelly, Eibhlis McDonnell, Aoife Butler, Karen Fox, Ceannait Walsh (Eire Og/Annacarty), Sinead Meagher (Kiladangan), Beth Ryan, Ereena Fryday (Knockavilla Kickhams), Mary Ryan (Moneygall), Grace O’Brien, Hazel McAuliffe, Sarah Quigley, Alanna Morris (Nenagh Eire Og), Aisling Mulryan, Caroline Mullaney (Newport/Ballinahinch), Karen Kennedy, Andrea Loughnane, Nicola Loughnane, Laura Loughnane, Emma Carey, Roisin Corbett (Thurles Sarsfields), Aoife McLoughney, Sabrina Larkin (Shannon Rovers), Ciara Ryan (Silvermines), Shauna Quirke (Toomevara), Claire Stakelum, Lorna O’Dwyer (Holycross).

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