The camogie community has a "responsibility" to fill its quota for Sunday's All-Ireland senior double-header at Croke Park and make use of a golden opportunity to grow the sport.
That's the view of Kilkenny's Aine Connery and Aislinn Connolly of Galway who both told RTÉ 2fm's Game On that camogie is lagging behind ladies football in terms of profile and popularity.
Last week, the Camogie Association announced that the All-Ireland senior semi-finals will take place in Croke Park for the first time.
The decider has traditionally been played at the stadium but the postponement of the Tyrone-Kerry All-Ireland SFC men's clash left an opening which will be filled on Sunday by Galway v Tipperary (2pm) and then Cork v Kilkenny (4pm).
"We have a responsibility now to fill the stadium on Sunday," said Connery.
"It's up to the camogie community, past players, current players, young girls - everyone to fill the stadium because that's what the players deserve.
"We need to have that atmosphere for the girls, but also it's so important we bring younger players to those occasions to give them role models and propel camogie into a really popular sport in Ireland."
While ladies football has gone from strength to strength in recent years, attracting record crowds to Croke Park for its finals, camogie has now pushed on in the same way.
Research conducted by Camogie Leagues sponsor Littlewoods Ireland earlier this year found that 89% of those surveyed were unable to name a single camogie player.
Connolly [pictured above] hopes more is done to spark change across the board.
"The LGFA have done great work over the last few years, and their title sponsor Lidl as well," she said.
"Those ads we see on television are really powerful. They'd almost make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. You want to be out there playing because it's so aggressive and looks so athletic. It showcases the female sports players for what they are on the ladies football side of things.
"Two years ago the ladies football final had the highest attendance for any female sport across Europe. It doesn't seem to be there from the Camogie Association so this poses a huge opportunity for the association to get behind it and look at what can be done, avenues they can take to put more bums on seats basically.
"It is great to get past players, current payers, girls [involved] but also boys - if mothers and fathers are bringing their girls bring their sons too.
"I was watching the league final this year at home in Galway with my 12-year-old nephew who himself would play sport and would turn his nose up at ladies sports. He couldn't get over the skill of the games.
"He was like, 'oh my God I never knew camogie was so good'. If you expose people to it they see how skillful the players are and the game is. It's just a matter of, how do we expose more people [to camogie]? That is the challenge."
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