{"id":588505,"date":"2026-08-10T02:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:42:17","slug":"the-girls-deserve-a-break-camogie-managers-call-for-team-holiday-fund-for-finalists-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588505\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The girls deserve a break\u2019: Camogie managers call for team holiday fund for finalists \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galway<\/a> manager Cathal Murray has called on the Camogie Association to contribute to a team holiday fund for the All-Ireland finalists<\/a> every year.<\/p>\n

The GAA<\/a> provides \u20ac150,000 to the All-Ireland senior football and hurling finalists annually to help fund team trips, but the sides appearing in the camogie decider receive no such subsidies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Cork<\/a> and Galway have been unbelievable the last three years, and they\u2019ve brought camogie to a different level,\u201d said Murray after watching his side lose by a single point at Croke Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we won the All-Ireland last year, we were out fundraising, the same when we won the All-Ireland in 2019 \u2013 going around to club matches with buckets, asking people for fivers, asking people for tenners, asking people for change. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was 1993 when Eddie O\u2019Connor spoke in the Hogan Stand and talked about the GAA providing money for a holiday. I know the GAA are looked after now \u2013 \u20ac150,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think these girls deserve [better], they don\u2019t need to go collecting money in the next few weeks to go on a holiday. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk about integration, we talk about closing the gap and it was brilliant to hear Brian Molloy [Camogie Association president] canvassing for these players. I think that needs to be done now. I think camogie deserves some money to be put into a fund for a holiday for the players, and not to have them go out raising money over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cCork were the same way in 2024, we were that way last year. The two teams have done so much for camogie and so much for promotion of the sport that there should be some financial link there for them and some money put in. You\u2019re not looking for an awful lot of money \u2013 20 to \u20ac25,000 would do so much for us.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"GalwayGalway manager Cathal Murray and Cork manager Ger Manley after the match. Photograph: Ben Brady\/Inpho <\/p>\n

Cork manager Ger Manley agreed with Murray\u2019s sentiments.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, totally. I suppose we\u2019re lucky enough with the sponsors we get, but I\u2019d agree that the girls deserve a break,\u201d said Manley. <\/p>\n

[\u00a0Cork edge out Galway in gripping camogie final on history-making dayOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

As for Cork\u2019s victory, Manley admitted afterwards his side had set out to deny Galway the oxygen of goals while aiming to raise a few green flags themselves at the other end of the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing between the two teams. We played them in 2023, a puck of the ball; 2024, a puck of the ball; last year a puck of the ball; this year a puck of the ball,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe did target goals. We\u2019ve only conceded one goal [in the championship], it was against Galway and it was late. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut we target goals all the time. We pushed up in the second half, we pushed up on Ciara Hickey, put Ashling Thompson on her and I think that nullified her a good bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt if we got a goal that our backs are tight and they didn\u2019t look like getting a goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the ball is away from your goals and down the other end of the field and you have good forwards you have a huge advantage \u2013 and we have good forwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galway manager Cathal Murray has called on the Camogie Association to contribute to a team holiday fund for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30883,38531,22288,1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-588505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-galway-gaa","tag-camogie-association","tag-camogie-championship","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}