The countdown continues to Sunday's All Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final when Galway face Cork in the sport’s showpiece.
The Tribeswomen last won in 2021 but have only won four times in the Camogie Association’s 120-year history.
Their supporters are hoping for a fifth victory this year and to bring the O’Duffy Cup across the River Shannon to Galway once again.
The sport has been elevated to a new level since its inception over a century ago.
One of the members of the 2013 winning panel, Sinead Cahalan, describes camogie as being almost at the professional elite level, with what the ladies put into it being on a par with the men’s game.
"It’s all encompassing, the girls consume it all year round. It takes so much to get to an All Ireland final and it takes everything to go right in order to win.
"They’re so well prepared and they have so much experience on the team."
As someone who knows what it is like to win an All Ireland, she said the feeling of winning stays with you for life.
"It’s 11 years since we have won ours but when I meet any of the girls to this day, we have a special bond that can’t be broken, when you go to battle with girls you have their backs for the rest of your lives.
"It’s just a special thing to win it."
Another former Galway player and sister of the Burke brothers, Deirdre Burke has high praise for women on this year’s panel.
"Ann Marie Starr and Niamh Kilkenny are after going back onto the panel after having babies in the last couple of years and I think it’s incredible.
"They’re absolutely unbelievable role models and brilliant sportspeople. Going back doing any sport after having a baby is no easy feat and to be going out on Croke Park on the biggest camogie day in the year is just unbelievable.
"There’s girls there going for a couple of medals, there’s girls just going for their first and I would be absolutely thrilled to see the girls come away with the cup on Sunday."
One young fan and player is more excited than most ahead of the game. Ten-year-old Zara Calvey is going to be one of the flag bearers at Croke Park.
"I’ll have to walk out with the team, with the players on the pitch and carry out the flag.
"I’ll be so proud and so excited. I still can’t believe that I got it."
Assistant Secretary of Galway Camogie Ann Kearney believes "it means everything to be in the final".
She has seen the team work very hard all year, especially after losing up to ten players since 2022 meaning a lot of team building had to be done, particularly during the league and championships.
"When you’re up there in Croke Park, and when you win, it is everything."
She has seen great support from businesses in the clubs this year, sponsoring their own club’s stars to help fundraise, and she's urging them to keep supporting the ladies.
"We need that money to bring the O’Duffy across the Shannon and we want that support up in Croke Park this year.
"We’re in our 120th anniversary and wouldn’t it be lovely if we had so many people up there to support the great team that we have today."
This is Galway’s third All Ireland final this year, but the county has yet to bring home a cup.
Galway Camogie Chairperson Brian Griffin does not think this last chance at an All Ireland victory is putting any additional pressure on the team.
"They’re up against it, let’s be honest about it. It’s a serious Cork team so to be there, we’ll go up, we’ll give it our best shot but no, we wouldn’t say there’s pressure.
"Obviously it would have been nice if the lads and the ladies that went before us had won but no there’s no pressure. As I said, Cork is a serious team too. It’s going to take a serious effort to win it.
