Camogie quarter-finals: All you need to know

RTÉ News​

04-07-2025

SATURDAY
Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior quarter-final
Clare v Waterford, Croke Park, 2.30pm
Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior relegation final
Derry v Wexford, Darver, 2pm
SUNDAY
Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior quarter-final
Tipperary v Kilkenny, Croke Park, 1.15pm
TV
Live coverage of both quarter-finals on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
ONLINE
Score updates and match reports available on RTÉ Sport Online and RTÉ News app.
RADIO
Score updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport.
WEATHER
Saturday: Mostly cloudy on Saturday with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle. While a few bright spells will develop, it'll stay rather cloudy overall. Highest temperatures of 16-22C, warmest in the south and east, where it will feel quite mild and humid.
Sunday: Cloudy to begin. Brightening up through the afternoon and for the evening with sunny spells and scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 14-19C.
Clare v Waterford
Waterford go into this as favourites, as regulars at this stage of proceedings and with most of the panel having been involved in the All-Ireland final two years ago. Those that weren't have played in All-Ireland minor finals.
Clare are in the second year of a rebuild, and making the last six after reaching the 1B league final is considerable progress for John Carmody's young squad. Beating Wexford and drawing with Limerick enabled them to progress on score difference but they will need to improve on a 20-point defeat by Tipperary last week to advance.
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Waterford had a change of management after the league, with coach Mick Boland taking over from Jerry Wallace. They didn't lose a game in Munster or All-Ireland Championship, a run that included a first ever championship win over Kilkenny, until last weekend's late collapse in Athenry, when they conceded the last six points to Galway, having been level with four minutes of regulation time remaining. That defeat cost them a direct route to the last four but they have a second bite of that particularly cherry.
The Banner will look to O'Loughlin, Clare Hehir and Ziyan Spillane to provide leadership, and their defence in particularly will be tested by a high scoring Waterford attack in which Niamh Rocket is excelling, along with former player of the year Beth Carton and Annie Fitzgerald, with Lorraine Bray provides the energy from the middle.
Derry v Wexford
Wexford would probably have had designs on a place in the knockouts stages, but find themselves in a relegation final. Having lost to the Clare, the wheels really fell off the wagon after falling short against Limerick. There were two heavy defeats by Tipperary and Cork and the only positive you could find was that they knew their fate before last weekend's loss to the Rebels.
Derry were down 10 first-team players from last year, when they retained senior status comfortably, so were up against it from the start. They gave up four goals in the Division 2 league decider against Offaly and that defensive frailty left them vulnerable against Waterford, Galway and Kilkenny.
Neither side can be full of confidence but in a one-off game to determine relegation or salvation, the team that can park recent history the best will survive.
Tipperary v Kilkenny
These old rivals got off to chastening starts but rebounded well to get to this juncture. They both began the year without a number of familiar faces – Mary Ryan, Cáit Devane and Nicole Walsh for Tipp, the Walsh cousins Miriam and Grace and Julianne Malone for Kilkenny – but their production lines ensure that they should always be competitive.
Kilkenny fell to a first ever championship loss to Waterford but beating Dublin, who defeated them in last year's All-Ireland quarter-final, meant they were going to advance from their group. They went toe to toe with Galway in the first half before falling away, but Tommy Shefflin has been working on some different set-ups, including playing Katie Power in a deeper role and the Noresiders should be getting closer to gel now.
A second Croke Park defeat in a row would be tough for the Stripeywomen to take, but Tipp will start as slight favourites. They lost by 18 points to Cork, which must have been a huge shock but their attack really clicked into gear subsequently against the Wexford, Limerick and Clare.
It was a good response as they became accustomed to being without cruciate victims, Eimear McGrath and Clodagh Quirke. With Grace O'Brien, Karen Kennedy, Karin Blair and Mairéad Eviston standing out, they racked up 15-62 in the process of securing the runner-up berth behind the All-Ireland champions. Apart from Power, Kilkenny can look to the likes of Laura Murphy, Caoimhe Keher Murtagh Aoife Prendergast.