Both of Sunday afternoon’s fixtures in the Glen Dimplex All-Ireland senior camogie championship were decided by a puck of a ball, but when the dust settled, 2025 All-Ireland finalists Cork and Galway both had a goal to spare at the end of their road trips to Tipperary and Waterford.FBD Semple Stadium was the venue for another meeting of old rivals Tipperary and Cork, and strong performances from Eimear Heffernan (0-4), Grace O’Brien (0-3) and Eimear McGrath (0-9, 0-5f) weren’t enough for Tipp to overcome a more balanced Cork display.It finished 0-21 to 0-18 in favour of the visiting Rebels, who got their noses in front with a run of 0-4 to 0-1 at the start of the second half and were never reeled in from there.There had never been more than two points in it during the opening half, which finished 0-11 each after some very open attacking play on the fast Thurles surface.Right from the throw-in, the tempo was high, with Mairéad Eviston producing a brilliant tackle to dispossess Sorcha McCartan as the Cork player was driving through on goal. Amy O’Connor pulled a ground shot across the goal from a tight angle in a frantic start, and the sense that Tipp were up for the fight was heightened when Grace O’Brien picked up a good diagonal ball and opened the scoring to crown a breathless first 60 seconds.Róisín Howard’s catch and lay-off to set up McGrath, Hayley Ryan’s sweeping strike with her back to goal and Laura Hayes splitting the posts from 60m out and just 5m from the sideline were among the highlights in a first half full of quality.Tipp lost their momentum a little in the third quarter, scoring just one point in 14 minutes, in no small part because of Hayes’s domination of the midfield exchanges. The 2024 Player of the Year was at her brilliant best, moving the sliotar around with control and precision to allow O’Connor (0-9, 0-6f), Saoirse McCarthy (0-5) and McCartan (0-3) to deliver the crucial scores for a Cork side that now sits on top of Group 1 with two wins from two games and in a strong position to reach the semi-finals. A draw against Waterford would confirm their place in the last four.Young Tipperary fans Cara and Katie on the pitch after the match against Cork in Thurles. Photograph: Dan Clohessy/Inpho Former All-Stars Niamh Mallon (Galway) and Niamh Rockett (Waterford) were each ruled out of the game at Azzurri Walsh Park, where Galway repeated their Division 1A Central League final win over the Déise, this time prevailing by 1-13 to 0-13 in yet another tense, low-scoring battle.Just three points were scored in the final quarter in a game where defences generally had the better of things. Niamh Niland and Carrie Dolan landed scores in the last six minutes to give the All-Ireland champions their first win of the summer.Beth Carton (0-8, 0-5fs) and Niamh McPeake (0-5 from play) stepped up to the mark for their respective sides to carry a greater share of the scoring load in the absence of Rockett and Mallon, though it did look in the early stages as if a free-scoring shoot-out might play out in the sunny southeast.Annie Fitzgerald opened the scoring from a tight angle for the home side in the second minute but on the next attack Shannon Corcoran did really well to get a pass away out of the tackle and set up Mairéad Dillon for the equalising score.Galway struck a decisive blow through Aoife Donohue, who despite giving up a couple of inches in height to both Brianna O’Regan and Rachael Walsh, was able to jump up between the two and get a decisive flick on Dolan’s long free to score the game’s only goal after six minutes.Two up at half-time, Galway doubled their lead when Ailish O’Reilly and McPeake both pointed in the first three minutes of the second half to make it 1-9 to 0-8, the latter assisted by a gorgeous first touch and pass from Caoimhe Kelly.Big defensive performances from Laoise Forrest, Keeley Corbett Barry and Vikki Falconer were crucial in shutting down the Galway attack for the next 20 minutes, restricting them to a mere two points in that time.Four Carton points and a pinpoint strike from Abby Flynn from the right-hand sideline set up a dramatic finale, one that featured Niland delivering the score of the game and arguably the match-winning point at the end of a 40m lung-busting run.GLEN DIMPLEX SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP GROUP 1Waterford 0-13 Galway 1-13Tipperary 0-18 Cork 0-21GLEN DIMPLEX INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONSHIPWestmeath 1-9 Laois 3-12Carlow 1-12 Meath 4-15GLEN DIMPLEX PREMIER JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPTyrone 0-9 Armagh 3-15Kildare 1-9 Cavan 0-16Roscommon 7-21 Wicklow 1-6GLEN DIMPLEX PREMIER JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPMayo 1-12 Monaghan 1-6Louth 2-18 Donegal 1-8