Imelda Hobbins 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 1996, the first for Galway at senior level.
Early career
She won an All Ireland
minor
Minor may refer to:
* Minor (law), a person under the age of certain legal activities.
** A person who has not reached the age of majority
* Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education
Music theory
*Minor chord
** Barb ...
medal with Galway in 1986, captained the
Cyril Farrell
Cyril Farrell (born 1 August 1950) is an Irish former hurling manager, selector, trainer and coach. He was the manager of the senior Galway county team on three separate occasions, during which time he became the county's longest-serving mana ...
trained
St Raphael’s, Loughrea team to the 1988
All-Ireland schools championship, scoring 1-10 in the final against
FCJ Bunclody, and scored two goals as Galway beat Limerick 3-4 to 1–5 in the 1988
All Ireland junior final. She won another
All-Ireland schools championship in 1989
Inter-county
She was a member of the 1994
National League
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team s ...
winning team and the 1998 Galway team beaten by Cork in the All Ireland final.
[1998 All Ireland final Cork 2-13 Galway 0-15 reports i]
Irish Examiner
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References
External links
Camogie.ie
Official Camogie Association Website
* Wikipedia List of Camogie players
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Galway camogie players
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