Kilkenny's Ava Brett challenges Aoife Donohue of Galway. Kilkenny gave them plenty to think about for periods of the first half – despite Carrie Dolan scoring inside 30 seconds. Galway though finished the half strongly with points each from Kelly and Dolan to make it 0-7 to 0-5 at the break. Kilkenny reduced the margin to six by the final whistle, but Galway had more than enough done to reach a third successive battle with Cork. Galway: S Healy, R Hanniffy, R Black, K Manning, D Higgins 0-1, C Hickey, K A Porter, A Hesnan, C Dolan 1-4 (0-3fs), N McPeake 0-2, A Donohue, A O’Reilly 0-1, A Keane, N Niland 0-2, C Kelly 0-3.