Six in Senior camogie title race
WEXFORD CAMOGIE are all systems go for the re-start of sport, with fixtures across the age ranges set to be organised this coming week.
Everyone that would have had championships before the lockdown will still have their competitions from Under-14 up to adult competing for silverware.
Fixtures for the adult club championship will be rubber-stamped at this week’s meeting.
The Senior championship has six teams this season, with promoted Intermediate champions Naomh Eanna joining stalwarts Rathnure, Oulart-The Ballagh, St. Ibar’s/ Shelmalier, Glynn-Barntown and champions St. Martin’s.
Initially, when dates for the resumption of G.A.A. activities were announced by Croke Park, Wexford camogie were looking at two groups of three for their Senior championship, with semi-finals and finals to follow.
However, they will revisit the structure this week when they meet, with the extra time opening up the possibility of quarter-finals being slotted into the plan, guaranteeing everyone three games in the process.
With the structure yet to be finalised, dates are not set in stone, but Wexford camogie will begin their club championship in the week beginning July 20.
Both of last year’s Senior finalists will be seeded in the draw this week.
The executive is planning to have the winning club in both a Senior and Intermediate inter-provincial championship, should they go ahead.
Wexford camogie are also intent on getting the under-age championships up and running as soon as possible.
Again, the dates for Under-14, Under-16 and Minor championships are expected to be finalised in the coming days.
Things are a lot murkier at national level where camogie officials have once again been embarrassed and left behind in the planning stages by their counterparts within the Ladies’ Gaelic Football Association.
There has been no decision on anything at national level, with the format for All-Ireland championships and plans, if any, for provincial championships expected to be discussed this week.
Significant alteration is expected to be made to the adult championships, which will get under way in mid-October.
So far there has been no decision on under-age inter-county camogie. The Under-16 Leinster championship got under way back in the spring, while Wexford had played three games in the All-Ireland Minor championship, losing twice and winning once.