Will it be Yellow or Blue ribbons that goes with the Black ones on Munster Intermediate Camogie Cup this Saturday.

In the last few years is there a more consistent team around than the Lismore Senior Camogie team?

Four County Finals are captured since 2010. The Denny Buckley Cup (Senior League) has been won three times since it was first played for in 2012. Four Munster Intermediate Camogie Championships (Waterford as an Intermediate Inter County team play in the Intermediate Club competition at Provincial and All-Ireland level) and earlier this year the ladies from the Heritage Town won a first ever All-Ireland Club Final, beating Kilkenny side Ballyhale Shamrocks in Clonmel after the two sides could not be separated two weeks earlier at Croke Park.

The success does not stop there.

Over the past few years, the club has won a number of underage titles and members of the club have helped Blackwater Community School to a number of honours and members of the club have represented the county at different levels, bringing back to the town it fair share of Provincial and All-Ireland medals.

This Saturday the club will look to add to its Roll of Honour when they take on Sarsfields for Cork in the Munster Club Final at Fermoy.

The Cork Club like their opponents this weekend are a very successful club. The current club was formed to serve the playing needs of women in the Glanmire and Riverstown area of Cork in 1969, five years before the Lismore club was formed.

Their first major honour was won in 1973 when they won the Junior ‘A’ Championship and six years later they won the Intermediate Championship and a further ten years passed before they won their next major honour, the Cork Senior Championship.

The club currently cater for players from under 8 to Intermediate and will provide stiff opposition for Lismore.

Just two years ago, the club had one of its most successful years ever winning seven trophies, the Munster Club League, County Championships at Minor and Under 14 levels and won Divisional finals at Under 15 A and B as well as Under 13 A and B levels, and it expected that some of these players will be pushing for a place in the team this weekend against Lismore.

If 2012 was a good year for the Cork Club, 2014 is proving to be just as good as the Intermediate team over the past few months have won the Cork Intermediate Championship, the Cork Intermediate League where they beat Brian Dillon’s in both finals and also contested the Munster Senior League final against Annacarty from Tipperary at Cashel back in July, a game that was won by the Tipperary Club by a small margin.

To reach Saturday’s game the Cork Club have played four games, beating Enniskeane in the first round of the championship on a 2-11 to 1-12 score line and in round two they had a comprehensive 5-15 to 1-0 win over Newtownshandrum.

In the semi finals Sarsfields were pushed hard by Blackrock, a game Sars had three points to spare at the end, winning 1-14 to 1-11.

The final against Brian Dillon’s proved to be a bit one sided as Sarsfields ran our 2-14 to 1-5 winners.

The past 18 months or so have proven to be an extremely busy time for Lismore.

In 2013 they began training over Saint Patrick’s Weekend for the campaign they faced and the work paid off as the League (Denny Buckley Cup) and the Championship were won, both against Saint Anne’s before the side went on to beat Newmarket-on-Fergus from Clare after a replay in the Munster Club Championship.

Very little if any time was taken away from the game after that win as the side in black and yellow hoops set their sites on winning a first ever All-Ireland semi finals and after winning that game the attention switched to a game in Croke Park and when they could not be separated from Ballyhale Shamrocks at GAA headquarters the attention switched to the clubs biggest ever game in its history at Clonmel, a game that was played and won exactly 52 weeks after they began preparations for the game.

Just like after the Munster Final, little time could be taken off from the game as the County Senior League was coming up and Lismore again reached the final which they were looking to win for the Third time in a row, but had to settle for second best against Saint Annes.

Soon afterwards the Championship began and it was three winds from three games against Butlerstown, Gailltir and Saint Annes in the league section to book a place for the club in the County Final back in September where they would beat their great rivals Saint Annes who had to pull out all the stops to beat Gailltir in the semi final.

In between the club games several members of the club were selected on different inter county teams.

The Intermediate team in Waterford is the premier team and several Lismore members were part of Waterford teams that reached All-Ireland semi finals in 2013 and 2014 loosing to Galway for the second time in two years in the 2013 game and Limerick in 2014.

Several members were also part of the Waterford team that won the 2013 Munster Intermediate Final against Tipperary in 2014 and this past year were part of Waterford teams that won Minor and Under 16 ‘B’ All-Irelands and were part of the Under 16 teams that won the Munster Finals in 2013 and 14 and who were beaten by Cork in the 2013 All-Ireland Final.

Heading into this weekend’s game the Cork side will be looking to some of their big guns which include Emer Fennell, Maeve McCarthy, Jenny Murphy, Katie Barry and Nicole Hickey to try and stop Lismore winning a fourth provincial final.

However should Lismore be able to stop these players playing at the full potential, they have plenty of others that are capable of stepping up to the mark including the likes of Chloe Casey, Chloe Ahearn, Claire Holland who played a big part in the County Final win, Julie Allen, Holly Herlihy, Niamh O’Callaghan, Lucy Allen, Gemma O’Donoghue, Lauren Casserley and Ciara Tobin.

For Lismore Grainne Kenneally, Marie Russell, Niamh Molumphy, Laura Buckley, Shona Curran, Nicola Morrissey and Aoife Hannon could well be the players that put in the big performances to win them a fourth Provincial titles.

Just like Sarsfield’s however it could be another player that makes the biggest impression on the day and that list of players include Caitriona McGlone the sides hat-trick hero in the All-Ireland Final replay back in March, Johanna Houlihan, Ruth Geoghegan, Sarah Fenton, Shauna Kiernan, Aoife Houlihan, Shauna Prendergast, Sarah Coughlan, Tanya Morrissey or Aisling O’Brien or even one of the younger players in the panel like Ellen Curran, Kate Heneghan, Alice Russell, Sarah Geoghegan and Sharon Williams.

Lismore may go into this Saturday’s game as the favourites, but they will know to win a forth Munster Final and to go on and try and retain the All-Ireland Final they won in March, they will face a stern test.

It is only two weeks since Lismore last played a competitive game beating Tipperary Champions Borrisoleigh at their own patch. Sarsfields will have been working hard since they won the Cork Championship some weeks ago, but while they will be training and playing challenge games, nothing can beat a good competitive game to keep you sharp and focused. Lismore get the nod to win as a result of having the more recent competitive game, but it could be close, maybe too close.