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unusual facts about camogie



1932 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

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.

1933 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

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.

1975 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

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.

2006 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

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.

2013 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

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.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1971

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Portglenone and Ballinasloe winning the championships of the other two provinces.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1973

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with St Patrick’s Creggan, based in Randalstown, County Antrim and Thurles winning the championships of the other two provinces.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1976

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Ahane and Creggan winning the championships of the other two provinces.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1977

The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Athenry from Galway, who defeated Portglenone from Antrim in the final, played at Athenry .

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1978

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Portglenone defeating Swatragh in the Ulster final (with former Ahane player Vera Mackey on their side) and Athenry winning the Connacht championship.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1981

The 1981 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Buffers Alley from Wexford, who defeated Killeagh from Cork in the final, played at Gaultier .

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1982

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Killeagh and Portglenone winning the championships of the other two provinces.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1990

Glen Rovers changes to the team included the retirement of Marie Ryan, the loss of Val Fitzpatrick, who had moved to Boston and the aqrrival of Cork inter-county players Linda Mellerick and Claire McCarthy and the emerging Denise Cronin.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 2001

It was one of the most dramatic finals in club championship history, Clare Grogan scored an injury time equaliser for Cashel, followed by Carmel Hannon’s dramatic injury time winning point, and Patricia Burke’s goal line clearance.

Ashbourne Cup

In 1915 she persuaded her friend, Irish language activist William Gibson, (Liam Mac Giolla Bhríde (1868–1942), second Lord Ashbourne, to donate a trophy for the camogie intervarsity competition.

Austin Stacks Camogie Club

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.

Ben Tansey

His cousins Sharon Glynn & Sheila Coen were on the Galway camogie team that won an All-Ireland in 1996.

Coláiste San Dominic Camogie Club

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.

Gael Linn Cup 1983

The 1983 Gael Linn Cup, the most important representative competition for elite level participants in the women's team field sport of camogie, was won by Leinster, who defeated Munster in the final, played at Ballinlough.

Glenullin

Glenullin was one of the first areas in the county to organise Gaelic games and the local club, John Mitchel's GAC, based at Seán Ó Maoláin Park, has a number of football, hurling and camogie teams.

Joan O'Flynn

She was chair, secretary and PRO for Co Kildare Camogie Board, a member of Leinster Council, and chair of the National Strategic Plan committee for six years and a ememebr of Management Committee for three years before she defeated Antrim's Catherine O'Hara in a vote at Congress 2009 in Athlone to become the sport’s first president-elect.

Lil Kirby

Members of Old Aloysians camogie club formed an archway of hurleys when she married David Crowley on April 18, 1941 in the Honan Chapel, University College Cork.

Her record of six All Ireland medals was not equalled until 1953 and not by a Cork player until Pat Maloney and Marion McCarthy both won their sixth medal in 1980.

National Camogie League 1984

The 1984 National Camogie League, the second most important elite level inter-county competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Cork, who defeated Dublin in the final, played at Ballinlough.

Niamh Mulcahy

Her granduncle was hurling team of the century member Mick Mackey, her grandfather was All Ireland medalist John Mackey, her father Ger was an inter-county hurler and her mother Vera an inter-county camogie player for Limerick and a member of the only ever Limerick Senior team to reach the Al Ireland final, when Cork beat them in 1980 after a replay.

Séamus Harnedy

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.

Shem Downey

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.


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