Five years after winning their first Kilkenny title, Dicksboro have a chance to scale the highest peak in Sunday's AIB All-Ireland senior club camogie final showdown with three-in-a-row chasers Sarsfields.
No Kilkenny side has taken the club crown since St Lachtain's won their third in a row back in 2006, an oddity in an era when the county team has returned to the winners' enclosure after a long bleak spell in the noughties.
The Kilkenny city outfit - known locally as 'the 'Boro' - were pipped in the Leinster decider by eventual All-Ireland champions Oulart-The Ballagh in 2021.
Last month, they banished the demons of that loss, overcoming St Vincent's in the provincial final, in a game in which Dicksboro's county star Aoife Prendergast and St Vincent's attacker Aisling Maher donned body cams.
For Caoimhe Dowling, the weekend's All-Ireland final, aside from the obvious prize up for grabs, is a chance to broaden the horizons of everyone connected with the club.
"Thomastown had a great run, when they were winning county finals and getting to Leinster finals. It's nice to get that bit further and get to the (All-Ireland) final," Dowling told RTÉ Sport.
"It's great to be able to look at the younger girls and boys in the club - we're an amalgamated club - and say we're putting that tradition in place, where this is something that we can do.
"For younger girls coming through onto the team, this is the kind of goal we set for ourselves. Where we're not just competitive in Kilkenny, but being competitive in Leinster and in an All-Ireland series as well."
Asked to account for their rise, Dowling stresses the blossoming of a core group of players, who have played together up through the age grades, overcoming setbacks and learning as they go.
"The girls that have fallen away, like Lisa Hanrick and Aine Maher, were just that bit older. The core group of girls have stayed the same. And we're all just that bit older now.
"We're considered the oldies now at training and some of us are only between 23 and 26.
"We've been in situations where we've been in finals and we've lost. So, you're just taking each experience as it comes.
"We have great role models in our group. We have Orla Hanrick there, who is the only player who was there when the team came up from intermediate to senior.
"Aoife Prendergast has great experience, having captained Kilkenny to an All-Ireland final. Even the likes of Niamh O'Donoghue, she's had three kids and she's back playing and togging out for us. Those girls that show how much they want to be there makes you appreciate being there and starting and playing for the 'Boro."
Naturally, as newbies to this stage, Dicksboro enter as outsiders - facing off against the famed East Galway outfit, who in Joe Cooney's heyday won back-to-back hurling All-Irelands in 1993 and 1994 and have emerged as the dominant force in camogie in the present era.
Within Kilkenny, Dicksboro have long measured themselves against Thomastown, surpassing them in recent years. While the All-Ireland final experience is new to them, Dowling and co will strive to remain single-minded.
"When it is a new experience, you're trying to soak in as much as you can. It's great to think that last year, you were watching at home. And now you're getting the chance to play them in Croke Park.
"We had a few knocks against Thomastown in Kilkenny. And now Sarsfields are the team in Ireland that are on a roll and have that momentum.
"They're used to this situation. It's a new thing for us. It's hard to see it as 'any other game'. But you'll just try and put the occasion to the back of your mind and focus on the 60 minutes.
"Winning Leinster for the first time, looking up at Jenny [Clifford] lifting the Cup felt surreal.
"It would be amazing [to win on Sunday]. For the whole club, the commitment that everyone puts in. It's not just the girls in the team. Everyone takes a bit of joy in every win that we get."
Watch the AIB Senior Camogie Club Championship final, Sarsfields (Galway) v Dicksboro (Kilkenny), on Sunday from 5pm live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Watch the Intermediate final, Clanmaurice (Kerry) v Na Fianna (Meath), live on RTÉ Player from 3pm.
