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Kilkenny travelled to Enniscorthy last Sunday for the first round of the South East League and the first competitive fixture of the 2010/2011 season. They were expecting a tough encounter and that’s what transpired at the Ross Road grounds.

The Galway senior camogie ladies edged out Cork by 0-10 to 0-9 in Sunday’s All Ireland Senior Camogie semi-final replay in Semple Stadium to shatter Cork’s dreams of winning a coveted three in-a-row.

Devastation is the only word to describe Kilkenny’s exit from the All-Ireland senior camogie championship as Anne Downey’s troops saw their hopes of lifting the O’Duffy Cup for the first time since 1994 whither away in the space of 90 seconds.

The Galway senior camogie team must do it all again this Sunday in Thurles at 3.30pm when they take on Cork in the replay of the All-Ireland semi-final.

What a day of Camogie to look forward to this Saturday! The four best teams in the land will be going to battle in Nowlan Park as the prestigious prize of the O’Duffy Cup awaits.

This year’s Gala All Ireland Senior Semi-finals take place as a double header at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny August 14.

The Kilkenny senior camogie girls have had an excellent season so far, and their unlucky one-point defeat to Wexford in the national league final was their only loss of 2010.

O’Duffy Cup

Camogie fans are set for a triple delight following the announcement at the launch of the Gala All-Ireland Camogie Championships that the Intermediate camogie final will be played with the Senior and Premier Junior finals for the first time in GAA headquarters this year.

Last year’s defeated All-Ireland senior camogie finalists Kilkenny begin their O’Duffy Cup campaign as they face Galway in the opening round of the Gala All-Ireland senior camogie championship in Nowlan Park tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon with a 1 o’clock throw-in. It is a repeat of last year’s enthralling semi-final clash where a goal in the 4th minute of injury-time by substitiute Marie O’Connor gave Kilkenny a deserved victory.