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AT only eighteen, Clare minor cap- tain Carina Roseingrave already has a sizeable list of honours and achievements that most veterans of the game would severely envy. Mun- ster inter-county Intermediate and Minor, County and Munster senior club, county and provincial schools titles as well as underage club med- als of every grade.
If that wasn’t enough, there is even a Munster schools soccer and a ladies
football schools county title thrown in for good measure.
Still, for a player of such undoubt- ed talent, an All-Ireland medal still eludes her and the fact that this is her last opportunity to win a medal at this grade, Roseingrave is doubly determined to add it to the list.
“It would mean the world to me, ab- solutely everything to get an All-Ire- land medal with this group of girls, who are all great friends.
“A Munster medal is a fair acheive- ment but if we could go one step fur-
ther and do what no other team in the county has done before, it would be brilliant.
‘I’m very proud to be captain of Clare’s first minor All-Ireland team. It’s a great achievement and now I can’t wait really beacause it’s never happened in Clare that we have been in an All-Ireland final but we are go- ing to give it a go.”
She also has the added experience of playing in last year’s All-Ireland Junior final, a heartbreaking occa- sion for all involved but with another
All-Ireland Junior final appearance to come in the middle of Septem- ber, the future is certainly bright for Clare camogie.
However, Kilkenny are bidding for their third successive title and having played them previously, she realises that Clare are up against it.
“Kilkenny were definitely the side to beat all year. We played them two years ago in an All-Ireland semi-fi- nal and they stopped us in our tracks so they will be very strong and are a very confident side.
“We will have to get at them early and hard and hope for the best. If we can do it, it would be a great boost. I do the summer camps so a lot of kids would be talking about it so if we did bring home the All-Ireland, it would boost the game even further in Clare and more kids would want to play camogie.”
Even for all her stack of medals, winning this one would be her big- gest achievement yet.