Austin Stacks is a

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 ...

club that won the

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 ...

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. The club won a further Leinster championship in

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and the Dublin Senior Championship on 11 occasions.

Background

The cub was formed in 1930 by Molly Heron, Violet Forde, Molly Tubbert, Rose Kelly, Rita Blake and the Fallon sisters. 978-1-908591-00-5 Molly Fitzgerald-Murphy who trained Stacks teams for many years in Herbert Park, went on to become the Leinster Council and the Dublin County Board chair.

Other achievements

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.

All Ireland titles

Goals from Pauline Brennan, Anne Sheehy and Rita Halpin won their first All Ireland club championship in

. In 1972 they were strengthened by the arrival of

Liz Neary Liz Neary (born 1951 in Kilkenny, Ireland) is a retired Irish sportsperson. She played camogie at various times with her local clubs St. Paul's and Austin Stacks and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1970 until 198 ...

, who had already won three All-Ireland Club medals with St Paul's, and the return of Sligo-born Mary Sherlock, holder of five All-Ireland senior medals. They beat Portglenone by 4–2 to 2–0 in the final.

Players

Notable players included

Bríd Reid Bríd Reid is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship-winning team in 1959 and, unusually (for the time), returned by air from her honeymoon in England to captain the team to victory. Career She won five All ...

, (later to become a Phyllis Campbell and All Ireland winning captain

Doreen Rogers Doreen Rogers is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1944 and 1949. Career A prolific goalscorer throughout her career, she won further All Ireland senior medals in 1942 when she scored two ...

. Teresa Walsh (won the trophy for the best individual athlete from a full programme of 38 events at Dublin sports in 1963.

Colours

Austin Stacks wore a navy gym tunic with yellow and green bars around the skirt with a white blouse.

References

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External links

Camogie.ie
Official Camogie Association Website * Wikipedia List of Camogie clubs Gaelic games clubs in Dublin (city) Camogie clubs in County Dublin