CORK dual star Libby Coppinger has decided to focus on camogie only at inter-county level in 2026, The Southern Star can confirm.

The St Colum’s clubwoman has juggled both camogie and football for Cork for almost a decade, since 2016, but has now chosen to give her full inter-county attention to camogie.

This will be a big blow to Cork ladies football, but four-time All-Ireland winner Coppinger has established herself as one of the standout defenders in camogie, winning three Camogie All-Stars in the past four years.

Coppinger admitted earlier this year that playing both camogie and football at the highest level was ‘just getting that bit harder’.

The serious hamstring injury that sidelined her in the summer of 2024 was also on her mind heading into this season, but she still lined out for both Cork teams – Ger Manley’s camogie side lost the All-Ireland final to Galway, while the Cork footballers came up short in an All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Dublin.

Coppinger’s decision follows recent developments involving Cork’s other dual stars, with Hannah Looney and Aoife Healy signing AFLW deals in Australia with Hawthorn and Fremantle respectively.