The 1974

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The ...

for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of

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was won by St Paul’s from

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, who defeate
Oranmore
from

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in the final, played at Ballinderrin .

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in

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since the 1880s, with

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and

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winning the championships of the other two provinces. Angela Downey scored 4–3 for St Paul’s, who had 11 of the Kilkenny senior panel to select from, in the semi-final against Portglenone at

Nowlan Park UPMC Nowlan Park (; ) is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Kilkenny, Ireland. Named after James Nowlan (the longest serving President of the GAA), the stadium hosts major hurling matches and is home to the Kilkenny hurling te ...

. The UCC-Oranmore semi-final was played a s curtain raiser to the All-Ireland club football semi-final between

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and Lurgan’s Clanna Gael.

Downeys’ journey

The Downey twins traveled to Kilkeel Co Down from Kilkenny to play in the Al-Ireland colleges semi-final, via Monaghan (because a cross country team from St Brigid’s Callan was competing in the schools championship) and played in Callan’s one point win over Kilkeel. They then set out for Ballinderrin, near Craughwell in Co Galway to play for St Paul’s in the final of the club championship. Again the twins played an important part in their team’s victory and Angela scored St Pauls’ second goal

The Final

Mary Conway scored two goals for St Paul’s, who were held 1-0 to 1-0 at half-time.Report of final in Irish Times, March 10, 1975, competition of 1974 Agnes Hourigan wrote in the

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In a closely contested first half the visitors got the fillip of an early goal when they were facing a stiff breeze and though the home side made plenty of raids on the St Pauls‘ defence they failed to register a score until Josie Kelly sent a neat pass to Pat Feeney, who netted to make the score one goal each, and so it remained until half-time. Kilkenny now with the wind advantage were quickly on the offensive and added a goal and a point.

Final stages

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References

External links

Camogie Association
{{Camogie_All-Ireland_Club_Championships 1974 in camogie

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