Manley hails "tight group" after Cork's All-Ireland triumph August 09, 2026Cork's Ashling Thompson celebrates with her team mates and the O'Duffy Cup after the match ©INPHO/James Crombie Cork's Ashling Thompson celebrates with her team mates and the O'Duffy Cup after the match ©INPHO/James CrombieCork boss Ger Manley credited his group for putting “everything in” leading up to this summer’s championship. The Rebels defeated Galway by 2-14 to 0-19 this afternoon to get their hands back on the coveted O’Duffy Cup, avenging last year’s defeat to the Tribeswomen by the same one-point margin in the process. "We've such a good group, a tight group. “We knew a couple of weeks out from the championship that we had something, and they put everything in, the players, the management, the whole lot. "We played a challenge against Limerick three weeks out from the (first) Galway game, and we played some great hurling, but we trained so hard.