Cork and Waterford to wear shorts in Munster camogie final
Cork and Waterford senior camogie players are expected to wear shorts as a form of protest in Saturday's Munster final in The Ragg.
Following on from Dublin and Kilkenny's attempt to highlight the lack of choice regarding skorts by initially wearing shorts in Blanchardstown last Saturday, Cork and Waterford are set to do the same at the Tipperary venue this weekend.
Speaking on Newstalk's Lunchtime show on Tuesday, Cork star Hannah Looney indicated they would be following suit.
'I can't speak on behalf of all our players at the moment, because we haven't sat down and had that vote similar to how Kilkenny and Dublin addressed it last week, but I'm sure we will be looking to take similar action at the weekend,' she said.
Looney added that they too wanted to make their point considering 70% of inter-county players who responded to a GPA survey find wearing skorts uncomfortable and 83% want the choice of donning either skorts or shorts.
'I think it's important that we do shine a light to it again this weekend while it's a hot topic.'
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Meanwhile, Sunday's Leinster SFC final between Louth and Meath in Croke Park is set to attract a bumper crowd in excess of 50,000.
Both counties are reporting significant uptake in tickets ahead of their first provincial decider meeting in 15 years.
That infamous 2010 clash drew a crowd of 48,875 to GAA HQ and the rematch is in line to be the largest for a provincial showdown since the Dublin-Kildare Leinster final of 2017, which recorded an attendance of 66,734.
No provincial final has come close to that figure since then. In 2019, 47,027 watched Dublin trounce Meath to claim a ninth straight Leinster title. The closest to that figure outside Leinster since then was the Tyrone-Down Ulster showdown that same year, which brought 31,912 to Clones before the capacity of the St Tiernach's Park was scaled down following healthy and safety measures.
Saturday evening's Armagh-Donegal Ulster SFC final in the Monaghan town will be a 29,000 sell-out. Tickets for the Clare-Tipperary Munster SHC Round 3 game in Ennis are also in high demand with an anticipated crowd similar to the 20,778 who were in attendance for last month's Cork game.
No tickets are currently available on public sale for Sunday week's Limerick-Cork Munster SHC Round 4 game in TUS Gaelic Grounds, which is expected to reach the stadium's 41,000 capacity.
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