Mary O'Connor (born 1977) is an Irish sportsperson. A

dual player Dual player or dual star is a term used in Hiberno-English to describe someone who competes in multiple sports — for example, in Victorian Ireland, cricket and hurling. The term today in Gaelic games typically describes a male player who plays ...

, she played both

ladies' Gaelic football Ladies' Gaelic football () is an Irish team sport for women. It is the women's equivalent of Gaelic football. Ladies' football is organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. Two teams of 15 players kick or hand-pass a round ball toward ...

and

camogie Camogie ( ; ) 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 "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

. As a footballer O Connor has played with her local clubs

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and Inch Rovers and was a member of the

Cork county ladies' football team The Cork county ladies' football team represents Cork GAA in ladies' Gaelic football. The team competes in inter-county competitions such as the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, the Munster Senior Ladies' Football Championship an ...

at the senior level from 1994 until 2010. She has won five

All-Ireland All-Ireland (sometimes All-Island) is a term used to describe organisations and events whose interests extend over the entire island of Ireland, as opposed to the separate jurisdictions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. "All-Irelan ...

titles. As a camogie player O'Connor played for her local club

Killeagh Killeagh () is a village in east County Cork, Ireland. It is approximately from Cork (city), Cork city, between Midleton and Youghal on the N25 road (Ireland), N25 national primary road. The village is in a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil par ...

and was a member of the Cork county camogie team at the senior level since 1996. Since then she has won seven

titles. O'Connor is one of the most decorated players in the history of

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. Winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 1997 (when her last point of the first half off her left side, scored as she was in full flight 50 yards out, is regarded as one of the best scores in the history of camogie ), 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006,

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awards in

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Career

She holds seven Senior All-Ireland and nine

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camogie medals as well as county, provincial and two All Ireland Club medals with Granagh-Ballingarry whom she played with while studying and working in Limerick.

Awards

She was the overall winner of the 96/103fm Rochestown Park Hotel award following her performances in the All-Ireland and

finals in 2006. she received the vodafone camogie player of the year award in 2006, As well as her three

awards she was nominated for further awards in 2004, 2008 and 2009, and received an unofficial Lynchpin award in

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Football

She captained Cork to a fifth successive All-Ireland football title in 2009All Ireland camogie final programme 2009 having won an All Star Award in ladies' football in 2006.

References

External links

*
Official Camogie Website

for the 2009

O'Duffy Cup The All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship is a competition for inter-county teams in the women's field sport of game of camogie played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Camogie Association and are played during the summer mo ...

All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour
* Video highlights of 2009 championshi
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part two

Video Highlights of 2009 All Ireland Senior Final
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Oconnor, Mary 1977 births Living people Cork inter-county ladies' Gaelic footballers Cork camogie players Dual camogie–football players Winners of four All-Ireland medals (ladies' football)