ALL-IRELAND CAMOGIE FINALS:TOMORROW'S Gala All-Ireland camogie finals day at Croke Park represents a first for Gaelic games as both the senior and intermediate teams will line out with each player's name on their team jersey.

In an effort to increase player recognition amongst spectators, senior finalists Galway and Wexford, along with intermediate contenders Offaly and Wexford, have placed the names of their players on the reverse of the team jersey.

The senior pairing of Wexford and Galway is notable for the absence of Cork from the final for the first time since 2001.

Chasing a three-in-a-row this term, the Leesiders were edged out by Galway by a point in a tight replay at Semple Stadium, just a week after the two teams had served up a free-flowing thriller in Nowlan Park.

Team captain Therese Maher is the heartbeat of the western side at centre-forward.

Her direct running has been the genesis of many scores for Noel Finn’s charges during the season, with Veronica Curtin and Tara Rutledge the chief beneficiaries. They also have, in Aislinn Connolly, one of the great exponents of the placed ball in the game.

Curtin and substitute Aoife Lynskey are the only remaining links with the only Galway team to win this title in 1996, but they face a stiff task in overcoming Wexford, who blitzed last year’s runners-up Kilkenny in the semi-final.

JJ Doyle’s crew are chasing a double, having already pocketed league silverware. A combination of power in defence, where Mary Leacy is once again thriving, and pace and trickery up front, where the likes of Kate Kelly and Katrina Parrock are very dangerous, makes them a complete outfit. And like Connolly, Una Jacob rarely misses from frees.

Galway prevailed in the round-robin stages by virtue of Jessica Gill’s late goal from distance and one expects that this will go right down to the wire once again, with Wexford possibly having the edge.

Joachim Kelly’s Offaly side will be playing in their third successive All-Ireland as they take on Wexford in the intermediate decider. The junior champions have flourished since stepping up a level but Wexford’s panel has been training with the seniors, and are taken to win the first leg of a famous double.

Waterford were Offaly’s victims in last year’s junior final and they are back again this time.

Poc Fada champion Patricia Jackman will bulwark their defence as they attempt to curb the very considerable threat of Antrim’s Jane Adams. It will be tight but the Déise should come out on top.