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1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1971 season. The championship was won by Cork, who defeated Wexford by a 13-point margin in the final. The match drew an attendance of 4,000. Semi-finals Kilkenny won the Leinster Championship for the first time when they defeated Dublin 5–3 to 4–3 and received an unexpected bye to the All-Ireland final when Galway withdrew, receiving a three-month suspension from Central Council for failing to fulfil the fixture. Final Cork took control of the final in the first half. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press The game was won and lost in the five minutes preceding the interval with Wexford leading 1-1 to 0-2 in the 20th minute when, Rosie Hennessy and Anne Comerford, last year’s captain, cracked home three Cork goals.Report of final in Irish Press, September 19, 1971 Final stages ---- MATCH RULES *50 minutes *Replay if scores level *Maximum of 3 substitutions See also * All-Ireland Sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork GAA
The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Chorcaí) or Cork GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork and the Cork county teams. It is one of the constituent counties of Munster GAA. Cork is one of the few dual counties in Ireland, competing in a similar level in both football and hurling. However, despite both teams competing at the top level of the game for most of the county's history, the county hurling team has experienced more success, winning the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship on thirty occasions. By comparison, the county football team has won All-Ireland Senior Football Championship on seven occasions, most recently in 2010. Cork was the third county from the province of Munster both to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC), as well as to appear in the final, following Limerick and Tipperary. Traditionally f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Dineen
Hannah Dineen Cotter is a former camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men onl ... player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1972, the third in succession for the county. She previously won All Ireland senior medals in 1970 and 1971 and completed Cork's four in a row in 1973, under her married name Hannah Cotter. Career She starred for University College Cork in their 1965 Ashbourne Cup success, their first for 14 years, and again for UCC in their unsuccessful Ashbourne Cup final of 1966. It led to a Beamish & Crawford Cork camogie player of the year award in January 1966. In 1970 she featured on the Cork team that won the All Ireland after 41 years and retained her place for the subsequent four in a row and two more finals over the follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Camogie League
The National Camogie League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Very Ireland Camogie Leagues, is a competition in the Irish team sport of camogie, played exclusively by women. The competition is held in three divisions graded by ability. It was first played in 1976 for a trophy donated by Allied Irish Banks when Tipperary beat Wexford in a replayed final. Division Two (originally the National Junior League) was inaugurated in 1979 and won by Kildare. The first two National League competitions started in the autumn and finished in the spring of 1976–77 and 1977–78 respectively. Since then the competition has been completed within the calendar year. The 2001 final was not played until October because of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak earlier in the year. From 1980 to 2005 the National League was divided into two sections – Senior and Junior. Reserve teams from the leading counties were allowed enter the Junior League after 1982. The current structure with Divisions 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, known simply as the All-Ireland Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurling competition in Ireland, and has been contested every year except one since 1887. The final, currently held on the third Sunday in August, is the culmination of a series of games played during July and August, with the winning team receiving the Liam MacCarthy Cup. For the majority of its existence, the All-Ireland Championship has been played on a straight knockout basis whereby once a team loses they are eliminated from the championship. In more recent years, the qualification procedures for the championship have changed several times. Currently, qualification is limited to teams competing in three feeder competitions; the bulk of the teams involved make up the tier one Leinster Championship and the Munster Championship while two teams also qualify ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Guilly
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Liz Garvan
Elizabeth Garvan is a camogie player, scorer of 3-6 of Cork's total of 5–7 in the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, All Ireland final of 1970. She won further All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, All Ireland senior medals in 1971, 1972 and 1973. Career She was still at school when chosen to play for Cork in the Munster championship of 1968 and for Munster in the Gael Linn Cup the following autumn, winning the Munster camogie player of the year award en route. She won Ashbourne Cup medals with UCC in their 1971-4 three-in-a-row. References External links Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website * :Camogie players, Wikipedia List of Camogie players Cork camogie players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) UCC camogie players {{Cork-camogie-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watergrasshill GAA
Watergrasshill GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Watergrasshill, County Cork, Ireland. The club is affiliated to Cork GAA and is part of the Imokilly division. Currently, the club fields teams in hurling and camogie, with no Gaelic football teams. History The club was founded in 1928. It was predominantly a Junior B hurling club for much of its early existence, winning an East Cork B hurling championship in 1947. It did on occasion sporadically enter teams in the East Cork football championship in its earlier years, with little success. In 1960 the club became a sister club to the Gaelic football club in the parish, Glenville. Watergrasshill would send its footballers to play for Glenville and in return, Glenville would send its hurlers to play for Watergrasshill. In 1968 the club won its second East Cork Jr B title and regraded to Junior A for the following season. Within 5 years the club had captured its first East Cork Junior A championship in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCC GAA
UCC is a football and hurling club associated with University College Cork. UCC teams play in the Cork Senior Football Championship and Cork Senior Hurling Championship as well as the two main third-level competitions namely the Sigerson Cup in football, the Fitzgibbon Cup in hurling and the Ashbourne Cup in camogie. They also compete against inter-county sides in the pre-season McGrath Cup (football) and Waterford Crystal Cup (hurling). The piratical skull and crossbones logo on the team shirt, which first appeared on the rugby team of what was then known as Queen’s College Cork (composed mostly of medical students, hence the bones) was appropriated in the mid-1910s by the GAA clubs, and in 1929 by the UCC hockey club. Notable players ;Football * Johnny Buckley * Maurice Fitzgerald * Paul Galvin * Moss Keane * Billy Morgan * Séamus Moynihan * Ken O'Halloran * Jamie O'Sullivan ;Hurling * Pat Heffernan * Joe Deane * James "Cha" Fitzpatrick * Ray Cummins * Nicky English * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Moloney
Pat Moloney-Lenihan is a former camogie player selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of All Ireland medals in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1980 and 1982. Club and collegiate career She was educated at Presentation Convent, Youghal. As a young player she was commended for continuing to play with her native village despite their status as a junior club, eventually helping Killeagh club win six Cork Championships and one All Ireland Club Championship. While a student in UCC she won four successive Ashbourne Cup inter-collegiate medals and played with the Combined Universities. Inter-county career She was still a teenager when she won her first All Ireland medal in the first leg of what became a four in a row for Cork, 1970–1973 and went on to collect three more senior All Ireland medals. She led Cork to All Ireland victory in 1982 and won her seventh All Ireland medal despite being forced to retire with a leg injury. Awards Apart from her selecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion McCarthy
Marion McCarthy is a former camogie player, winner of the B+I Star of the Year award in 1980. and All Ireland medals in 1978, 1980, 1982 and 1983. She won National League medals in 1984, 1986 and 1991. She is the only player in camogie history to win All Ireland medals as an outfield player and, after 1980, as a goalkeeper. She was selected as Cork camogie player of the year in 1980. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Cork camogie players {{Cork-camogie-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Whelton
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