Camán Caint Camogie Podcast

With the colleges' campaigns drawing to a close, Martin and Áine are joined in studio this week by Coláiste Abhainn Rí manager Noelle O'Driscoll to talk about her side's Senior C All-Ireland final victory over Gort Community School at the weekend.

We're also recapping all of the weekend's VERY Camogie League action and looking ahead to round three, with an in-depth look at our live game from Saturday that saw Kilkenny and Galway serve up some championship flair at UPMC Nowlan Park. We've also got an interview with Loughgiel and Antrim start Róisín McCormick who was also part of the Ashbourne-winning TUD team earlier this month.

On this week's podcast we're catching up with Kilkenny senior camogie manager Brian Dowling and his Clare counterpart John Carmody in the wake of their meeting in round one of this year's VERY Camogie League Division 1A.

New Carlow manager Peter 'Chap' Cleere joins the podcast to outline his intentions for the county ahead of their start in Division 3 next week and we also speak with Waterford's Brianna O'Regan on how the sport has helped her become the player she is today.

To round things out, we're taking a full look at all the key matchups of the weekend including Galway's trip to UPMC Nowlan Park to take on Kilkenny this Saturday.

Following the debacle surrounding UL's elimination from this year's Ashbourne Cup, days out from the biggest weekend in colleges camogie and despite being printed in the matchday programme, we're taking a look at what went wrong, what can be done and how situations like this can be avoided in the future.

We'll be on the road this weekend for the start of the VERY Ireland Camogie Leagues in Clare so we preview this weekend's first round inter-county camogie action and as the conversation rolls on, we discuss issues around abuse being directed at county officials on the sidelines and the consequences - or lack thereof - of those actions.

It's another edition of Camán Caint, the award-winning camogie podcast, and it's streaming now wherever you do your podcast listening. 

Join Martin Quilty, Áine Farrell and Lillian Holohan along with the CCAO's Jack Dunphy to discuss the upcoming Ashbourne weekend, the Camogie Association Media & Volunteer awards and the lack of sanctions over abuse of officials.

Get new episodes every Tuesday during the inter-county and club season. Get in touch with the podcast by emailing [email protected]. 

This week we review James Stephens' All-Ireland intermediate club final against Clonduff and hear from some of those on the pitch. We also chat about the upcoming 2023 season, look at the approachability of some managers, check out the schools competitions and pick our personal highlights of the year.

It's also the end of season 3 and the final podcast of 2022 so we can take a winter break for a few weeks, but we'll be back in January with the colleges actions.

To each and everyone who has listened to and shared episodes from this year, thank you so much! Wishing you and yours the very best for Christmas and thanks for the company in 2022!

We're recording live at James Stephens club rooms in Larchfield, joined by Ann and Angela Downey, Brian Leahy along with Marie Fitzpatrick and Teasie Brennan, two of the first women to win a club All-Ireland in Kilkenny, for a preview of James Stephens v Clonduff in the All-Ireland intermediate club camogie final this Saturday.

With James Stephens contesting an All-Ireland intermediate club camogie semi-final on Saturday against Castlegar, we're joined by manger John Scott and Emma Gaffney to preview the game.

We'll also have a look back at Friday's Camán Caint Team of the Year awards and the Kilkenny All-Ireland medal presentation night as the last formal event for the senior camogie setup in Kilkenny.

On Friday 2 December we went live at Dicksboro GAA Club for our special Team of the Year show which named the junior, intermediate and senior teams of the year from the 2022 Kilkenny Camogie club championship, along with the individual Player of the Year awards.

Listen back to how it all unfolded over the course of 50 minutes, hear who was nominated, who secured a place on this year's teams and who walked away with the overall awards.

Congratulations again to all those nominated and those who will be wearing the All-Star jersey for 2022.

This week, Martin is joined by Paula Dowling in studio to recap the All-Star awards weekend that saw Kilkenny claim eight of this year's awards, along with Player of the Year for Miriam Walsh and Manager of the Year for Brian Dowling.

Theresa Aylward joins the podcast by phone to discuss Dowling's achievements and this weekend's upcoming All-Ireland medal presentation at Hotel Kilkenny on Saturday night.

James Stephens and Myshall served up a great game at the weekend with the Kilkenny side coming out the better of the encounter to land this year's Leinster camogie club intermediate title - so there's a look back at that with a nod to this year's junior final, both in Clane on Sunday afternoon. You can hear from manager John Scott, Aoife Cantwell and more of the Village side in the wake of their victory.

We wrap up this week's podcast with a preview of this week's CCAO action.

It's been a busy week in camogie circles.

Saturday threw up the results we all wanted - James Stephens and Myshall booking their place in the final of this year's Leinster camogie club intermediate championship with the sides set to meet in Clane on Sunday.

On the podcast this week we'll be chatting out the game with the help of James Stephens manager John Scott and we'll be having a look ahead to this Friday's Camogie All-Star awards with 11 of Kilkenny's senior camogie ladies in the running for a coveted All-Star trophy.

And with our own awards just around the corner, we've got an update on how the player and team of the year voting is going. Remember you can cast your vote here in the Player of the Year awards.