The 1978

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 t ...

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

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 ...

was won b
Ballyagran
of

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, who defeated

Buffers Alley Buffers Alley is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the villages of Kilmuckridge and Monamolin in County Wexford, Ireland. The club fields teams in Intermediate hurling, Gaelic football and camogie. It competes in Wexford competition ...

from

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in the final, played at

Monamolin Monamolin or Monamoling () is a small rural village in County Wexford, Ireland, about south of the town of Gorey. Monamolin (in the parish of the same name),

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in

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since the 1880s, with

Portglenone Portglenone (from ga, Port Chluain Eoghain , meaning 'landing place of Eoghan's meadow') is a village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies 8.5 miles (14 km) west of Ballymena. It had a population of 1,174 people in t ...

defeating Swatragh in the Ulster final (with former Ahane player

Vera Mackey Vera Mackey is a former camogie player, an All Ireland finalist in 1980. Career The daughter of hurler John Mackey she played in two All Ireland club finals with Ahane. She won an All Ireland junior medal and two Gael Linn Cup The Gael ...

on their side) and

Athenry Athenry (; ) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies east of Galway city. Some of the attractions of the medieval town are its town wall, Athenry Castle, its priory and its 13th century street-plan. The town is also well known by virtu ...

winning the Connacht championship. In Munster Ballyagran defeated Éire Óg from Cork and then got a bye from the Tipperary champions. They then staged a great second half recovery against Portglenone, who led 2–4 to 0–1 by half-time, to win the semi-final. Every member of the Buffers Alley team had played inter county players at senior or junior grade.

The Final

The scale of the Ballyagran victory was unexpected, a five-point margin in one of the lowest scoring finals.Report of final in Irish Times, November 20, 1978 Agnes Hourigan wrote in the

Irish Press ''The Irish Press'' (Irish: ''Scéala Éireann'') was an Irish national daily newspaper published by Irish Press plc between 5 September 1931 and 25 May 1995. Foundation The paper's first issue was published on the eve of the 1931 All-Ireland ...

Ballyagran scored an unexpectedly easy victory over Buffers Alley. Six of the Ballyagran team were on the Limerick senior team which won Al-Ireland junior medals in 1977, and five of the team played in the 1978
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 wa ...
final, goalie Helen Butler, Pauline McCarthy, the O'Brien sister Geraldine and Bernadette and Liz Hayes.

Final stages

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References

External links

Camogie Association
{{Camogie_All-Ireland_Club_Championships 1978 in camogie

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