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You're listening to Across the Line, a Camogie podcast brought to you by Community Radio Kilkenny City.

You are all very welcome to the 13th episode of Across the Line Camogie podcast with myself, Aoife Lanigan.

On this episode, pictures happening this weekend, reaction to senior and intermediate county finals.

We speak to Fergus O'Cohour, choreographer, and to Caroline Moriarty, Emeralds Camogie Club PRO.

Aoife Prendergast, the county champion for the second year in a row, you must be delighted.

It's unbelievable Liam, it's class.

There's a lot of teams that are flying it.

Even the semi-finals, Thomastown in the semi-final.

And Kilmory O'Brien now, as we were speaking with Dave O'Brien last week about trying to kick on now.

And they didn't get an opportunity a couple of years ago when they had six days to kind of... get ready for Munster, win their first ever, senior, county senior title, but this time around, they have a little bit more time, and hopefully, a lot more, energy and ambition, to go a little bit further, looking at the, more county championships, the banner, what a huge win, Parting Mealick, making the breakthrough as well, doing big, winning the junior B, NS Diamond, a minor A football title, you know, Broadford Budike, winning the intermediate, Camogie, you know, Parting Mealick, doing a double really, in the junior A, junior A Camogie, and football, so, But so many stories around the place.

Scarif O'Connor doing the Junior B in your market with the Junior C Camogie title.

You know, just so many stories at the moment going around the county.

And just great to see all those kind of different clubs celebrating, isn't it?

Your county, your stories, your paper.

Well, we've just come from the county final fever all over the place, and now we're into the real stuff in the Munster Club.

Can county champions go a little bit further along the line? We're going to start with the Camogie, the Munster Senior Camogie Championship starts.

I'm sure it was similar in Clare and a couple of other spots around the county.

are we talking like well over 100,000 attending club finals at the weekend I think very easily even with senior finals you'd absolutely get that and then you take into account you've got LGFA and Camogie finals you've got junior intermediate finals and men's hurling and football as well there's so much happening but in Cork Owen look it was a titanic battle I didn't think the bars were at their best early doors and next thing Brian Hayes gets into it and they take a lead at half time you listen to Tomás Mulcahy afterwards like the emotion the emotion in all of these games Sunday games it's just it's personal wherever you go and for different reasons some people are trying to win something in honour of fallen teammates or people that have gone before them others are just trying to get one over on the neighbours and Mulcahy afterwards said no disrespect but beating the bars makes it sweeter and I love that I love that because that's what keeps us going in the GAA it's the local rivalry when it gets the club and getting one up on the neighbours and even though I'm sure maybe not with the bars this week because they've got a football final to come but the tradition in a lot of counties is that the losing team will go on drink a couple of points on the Tuesday maybe with the with the winners in their own pub in their local or maybe vice versa the winners will go over to the beating team and I just think these teams keep coming back and I just think, I just love it.

I just love the honesty of that.

But Patrick Horgan, Hoggy, delivering.