Kathleen Costine saved again but Marian Harkin retained her composure to score Galway’s third goal.
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Stephen Jordan the Athenry-based TD, who had refereed the hurling match did so instead and became the first person to referee All-Ireland senior hurling and camogie finals.
Kildare qualified for the semi-final for the only time in their history, but found themselves 3-0 to nil down at half time and scoring a late goal through Polly Smith of Newbridge St Theresa’s.
Bishop of Down and Connor, Daniel Mageean threw in the ball between Dublin and Antrim in final.
Dublin’s strong league structure and access to playing fields in the Phoenix Park enabled it to carry on as normal without any change to practice.
Giving a truly spectacular exhibition of the game that drew round after round of applause from the appreciative Oireachtas crowd, Antrim deservedly won.
Cork took command after the first ten minutes of their semi-final and dethroned champions Kilkenny, leading by 3-1 to 1-2 at half time with Pat Maloney adding a fourth goal in the second half and by the 14th minute Dublin led 3-5 to 3-2.
The 1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 109th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
Tipperary won their championship group game against Cork by 3-8 to 1-10 in Templemore with two goals from Emily Hayden and a third from Louise Young.
The 2013 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons— is the premier competition of the 2013 camogie season.
After capturing the Dublin league title from Celtic in 1965, they supplied half of the Dublin inter-county team that won the All Ireland championship, Mary Ryan, Mary Sherlock, Orla Ni Shiochain, Brigid Keenan and Anne McAllister.
Notable players include Pat Rafferty (later to become a President of the Camogie Association), Nellie Cummins, Eithne Feeney, Rita Fitzpatrick, Eva Moran, and All Ireland Camogie Championship winning captains Peggy Griffin and Pat Raftery.
She is one of three sisters from Palace, Poulpeasty, Co Wexford, who won All Ireland medals together in 1975, the others were Kit Codd and Bridget Doyle, winner of the 1975 B+I Star of the Year award.
Storey's daughter, Ciara, is also an All-Ireland medalist with Wexford.
Harnedy's mother, Cathy Landers, was an All-Ireland-winning captain with the Cork camogie team, while his father, Seán Harnedy, played with the Waterford team.
Downey's daughters, Angela and Ann, are regarded as two of the greatest camogie players of all-time, and won twelve All-Ireland medals with Kilkenny.