Thrilling win for Waterford minors to reach Electric Ireland All-Ireland A Camogie Final

Waterford will play Cork in an all-Munster Electric Ireland All-Ireland Camogie Minor final after a brilliant win over Kilkenny at the weekend. 

Waterford imposed themselves early on, the excellent Maggie Gosti breaching the Kilkenny defence with a goal after three minutes. Keisie Obanya added a point straight away before Rachel Dowling got the Cats off the mark.

It was Waterford who dominated the scoring to the interval however, Alannah McNulty and the outstanding Eimear O’Neill raising white flags to make it 1-6 to 0-3 at the change of ends, O’Neill bringing her tally to four.

Waterford had been reduced to 14 players just before the interval but they were able to keep Kilkenny at arm’s length in the second half nonetheless, even though Julie Lennon split the posts on two occasions early on for the young Stripeywomen and Dowling shot another brace to leave four between them.

It was O’Neill who landed the telling blow however, with a goal after 56 minutes following a brilliant bit of play by Emma Fitzgerald set her up. There was no way back for Kilkenny from there, hard though they tried and a late goal was not enough to deny the blue and whites their shot at history.

The All-Ireland final takes place at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny on May 7