Glen Dimplex Camogie All-Ireland Senior Championship – Group 1: 

Antrim 0-9 Kilkenny 6-15

Antrim had no answer to the might of Kilkenny when the sides met in the All Ireland Championship round robbin game at Corrigan Park on Saturday. The 2022 All Ireland winners were just too strong throughout the field, and though Antrim raised the first flag of the game through Maeve Kelly it was the Leinster champions who ruled matters from then on.

When the Cats got going Julieanne Malone soon had them level with a point and she added a goal soon afterwards, and when Kate Nolan and Asha McHardy added two more they in control.

Although Roisín McCormick and Aoife Prenderghast swopped points from frees, goals from Kate Nolan and Asha McHardy inside 60 seconds opened up a 3-2 to 0-2 lead. Roisin McCormick led a mini revival as she fired over four points, but a second goal by Malone pushed the visitors on to a 4-7 to 0-6 lead at the interval.

Roisin McCormick got the first point of the new half and after a couple of replies from the visitors Cassie McArthur and Caitrin Dobbbin pulled a couple more back for the home side.

Cassie McArthur and Caitrín Dobbin responded with a couple more Antrim points before Asha McHardy claimed her second goal to stretch the gap for the visitors. McHardy grabbed her second goal for Kilkenny in the final minutes as the Noresiders powered on to their second win in the competition to sit level at the top with Tipperary, who had a convincing win over Derry at Owenbeg.

Things don’t get any easier for the Antrim girls as they face Tipperary next weekend.

Kilkenny: J Malone 2-2, A McHardy 2-1, K Nolan and S Barcoe 1-2 each, A Prenderghast 0-4, 3 frees, S O’Dwyer 0-2, L Murphy and D Quigley 0-1 each

Antrim: R McCormick 0-6, 4 frees, M Kelly, C McArthur and C Dobbin 0-1 each