The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a five-point margin in the final.
Each team played all of the others once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
Substitute Lourda Kavanagh’s late goal helped Galway to a surprise against Cork in the group stages by 1-9 to 0-8 at Páirc Ui Rinn.
Cork went on to gain revenge when the same teams med again in the All-Ireland final, the second time a group result had been reversed in the final in the three years since the round-robin format was introduced into the championship in 2006.
The cross table below summarises the group stages, which were played from June 1 to August 3, 2008.