{"id":631227,"date":"2026-08-11T07:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/631227\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:18:27","slug":"crowds-line-the-streets-of-cork-to-welcome-all-ireland-camogie-champions-home-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/631227\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds line the streets of Cork to welcome All-Ireland camogie champions home \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a difference a year makes. <\/p>\n

Twelve months on from a heartbreaking one point to defeat to Galway<\/a> in the All-Ireland Final<\/a>, the Cork camogie<\/a> team returned to a heroine\u2019s welcome on Leeside with the O\u2019Duffy Cup after they defeated the Tribeswomen by an equally tight margin.<\/p>\n

The crowds had been gathering from around 5pm on the Grand Parade in Cork<\/a> city centre with Ken Perrott from Cork\u2019s 96FM Street Fleet keeping the spirits up, blasting out some of Cork\u2019s anthems including Kingfishr\u2019s Killeagh and the Franka and Walters\u2019 After All.<\/p>\n

By the time the team bus arrived at 6.45pm to the sound of Tina Turner\u2019s Simply the Best, and team captain M\u00e9abh Cahalane led her team-mates on to the stage near the National Monument, the crowd ranging from small children to pensioners could hardly contain its excitement.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Cork camogie team celebrate with the O\u2019Duffy Cup during their homecoming in the city centre on Monday night. Photograph: Tom Maher\/Inpho \"CorkCork supporters celebrate during the homecoming event. Photograph: Tom Maher\/Inpho \"YoungYoung Cork supporters celebrate during the homecoming event. Photograph: Tom Maher\/Inpho <\/p>\n

Cork 96FM\u2019s GAA reporter and MC for the night Finbarr McCarthy said he had seen some amazing welcomes for Cork camogie teams in the past, but he had never seen such a fantastic turnout.<\/p>\n

Lord Mayor of Cork Damian Boylan said he had gone to Croke Park on Sunday \u201cbelieving these ladies would deliver, and by God, did they deliver\u201d as he went on to pay tribute to the team for \u201ctheir sacrifice and resilience\u201d, as they saw off Galway to win by 2-14 to 0-19.<\/p>\n

Mayor of Cork County Bernard Moynihan said it was a great honour to be in Croke Park to see them win Cork\u2019s 31st All-Ireland senior camogie title, noting that while people can \u201cbuy cars and houses, you can\u2019t buy an All-Ireland medal\u201d.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Cork edge out Galway in gripping camogie final on history-making dayOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Taoiseach Mich\u00e9al Martin<\/a> also congratulated the team, speaking first as Gaeilge, praising the team for their determination, energy and power as he proceeded to tell the players how proud the people of Cork were of them after winning such a fine game of camogie with no little skill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous pleasure to be here to welcome home a great Cork camogie team … we thank the players in particularly for all they have done and we pay tribute to your captain Maeve Cahalane for the leadership she has shown on and off the field … Corcaigh ab\u00fa le fada an lae.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then it was the turn of Cahalane to come to the microphone, as looking out at a forest of red flags, she introduced the entire 36 strong panel of players to the crowd, who cheered their heroines to the skies before Cahalane thanked the thousands of fans in red jerseys.<\/p>\n

\"Cork'sCork’s Laura Hayes and Saoirse McCarthy (centre) lead the celebrations during the homecoming. Photograph: Tom Maher\/Inpho \"Cork'sCork’s Libby Coppinger lifts the O\u2019Duffy Cup. Photograph: Tom Maher\/Inpho <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to see so much red and white in the city \u2013 ye travelled in your numbers to Croke Park and we could hear ye get behind us yesterday when we needed it down the home straight \u2013 it made a difference so I just want to thank ye from the bottom of my heart \u2013 thanks a million.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then it was into Queen\u2019s We are the Champion before Cork\u2019s best known GAA fan, Cyril Kavanagh \u2013 the man with the sombrero \u2013 led the crowd in a stirring rendition of the old Cork anthem The Banks of My Own Lovely Lee to bring the proceedings to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a difference a year makes. Twelve months on from a heartbreaking one point to defeat to Galway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[12190,1877,18,5286,1878,19,17,5765,132],"class_list":["post-631227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-camogie","tag-cork","tag-eire","tag-gaa","tag-galway","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117075661841902225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}