All-Ireland Finals Day returns to Croke Park on Sunday 9 August, with three deciders across the Premier Junior, Intermediate and Senior grades in one packed afternoon. The centrepiece is a third straight Cork v Galway Senior final, a rivalry renewal for the O’Duffy Cup.
Finals Day — Match Schedule
| Throw-in | Grade | Final | Trophy |
| 12:00pm | Premier Junior | Armagh v Cavan | – |
| 2:00pm | Intermediate | Antrim v Laois | Corn Uí Phuirséil |
| 4:15pm | Senior | Cork v Galway | O’Duffy Cup |
All three finals are at Croke Park and live on RTÉ. The Junior final has already been decided: Monaghan lifted the Nancy Murray Cup last month. Times are confirmed by the Camogie Association.
Senior Final — Cork v Galway
These sides meet in the decider for a third year running, and Galway will fancy their chances of a repeat.
The champions reached the final with a comfortable 1-14 to 0-11 win over Kilkenny in Thurles, a Carrie Dolan penalty in the opening minute of the second half settling it, with Ciara Hickey named player of the match. Cork booked their place with two first-half goals in a 2-16 to 0-17 defeat of Tipperary in front of a record semi-final crowd, Amy O’Connor and Millie Condon finding the net.
Galway are the reigning champions, having beaten Cork 1-14 to 1-13 in a dramatic 2025 final for a fifth senior title, and they are chasing a first ever back-to-back. Cork, the most successful county in the championship’s history, are into a sixth consecutive final and hunting a record-extending 31st crown, having last won the O’Duffy Cup in 2024.
Dolan is Galway’s scoring engine from placed balls and play, while Cork’s threat is spread across O’Connor, Saoirse McCarthy and the returning Ashling Thompson. In a fixture this familiar, the smallest margins tend to decide it, as last year’s single point proved.
Intermediate Final Preview
Antrim face Laois in the Intermediate decider at 2pm, both chasing a return to Senior ranks. Antrim, beaten finalists last year, saw off Meath 3-10 to 0-12 in their semi-final and go in as favourites for a second Intermediate title in five seasons, with Éabha McAllister’s brace catching the eye. Laois, the 2025 Premier Junior champions, eased past Kerry 1-17 to 2-7 and will look to complete a swift climb through the grades. The winner earns promotion to the Senior Championship for 2027.
Premier Junior & Junior Finals
The Premier Junior final throws in first at 12pm, an all-Ulster affair between Armagh and Cavan, the third such pairing at this grade since 2020. Armagh come in on the back of a high-scoring 4-19 to 2-19 semi-final win over Roscommon.
The Junior grade is already settled, with Monaghan having claimed the Nancy Murray Cup in a final staged in Longford a month before Finals Day.
Betting Tips
Cork and Galway are so closely matched that this looks like a genuinely open final, with just a point between them in each of the last two deciders.
As a lower-odds selection, Galway carry real appeal as the reigning champions who beat Cork last year and have the tournament’s most reliable free-taker in Dolan. This is, however, offered as editorial opinion rather than a certainty on a game that could easily swing either way.
For those wanting more from the occasion, the market to watch is first goalscorer, where Cork’s O’Connor and Condon and Galway’s Dolan all appeal given their semi-final form.
Check the available markets on TonyBet, where outright winner, first goalscorer, correct score and winning margin are the ones to compare before deciding.
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