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All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1978

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All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1978
Championship Details
Dates
Competitors
Sponsor
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship winners
Winners Ballyagran (Limerick) (1st title)
Captain Pauline McCarthy
Manager
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship Runners-up
Runners-up Buffers Alley (Wx)
Captain Kathleen Tonks
Manager
Matches played

The 1978 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Ballyagran of Limerick, who defeated Buffers Alley from Wexford in the final, played at Monamolin.[1][2] It was the last club final to be played with the second crossbar, the "points bar," as per the rules of the game as amended by Congress in 1929.

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Portglenone defeating Swatragh in the Ulster final (with former Ahane player Vera Mackey on their side) and Athenry 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.[3][4][5]

Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:

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 final, goalie Helen Butler, Pauline McCarthy, the O'Brien sister Geraldine and Bernadette and Liz Hayes.

Final stages

Ballyagran (Lk)4-3 – 2-5Portglenone
Buffers Alley (Wx)2-6 – 0-8Athenry
Ballyagran (Lk)1-3 – 0-1Buffers Alley (Wx)
Ballyagran (Lk):
GK 1 Helen Butler
FB 2 Anne Fahy
RWB 3 Breda Murphy
CB 4 Geraldine O'Brien
LWB 5 Liz Hayes
MF 6 Bernadette O'Brien
MF 7 Pauline McCarthy (captain)
MF 8 Vera Mackey
RWF 9 Margaret Mary O'Keeffe
CF 10 Marita Murphy
LWF 11 Margaret Carroll
FF 12 Margo O'Connell
Buffers Alley (Wx):
GK 1 Kathleen Tonks
FB 2 Margaret Leacy
RWB 3 Geraldine Duggan
CB 4 Martina Cousins
LWB 5 Deirdre Cousins
MF 6 Fiona Cousins
MF 7 Dorothy Walsh
MF 8 Teresa Hobbs
RWF 9 Caroline O'Leary
CF 10 Maggie Hearne
LWF 11 Bridie Jacob
FF 12 Ann Butler

References

  1. ^ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460. 978-1-908591-00-5
  2. ^ All Ireland club championships on Camogie.ie
  3. ^ Report of final in Irish Press, November 20, 1978
  4. ^ Report of final in Irish Independent, November 20, 1978
  5. ^ Report of final in Irish Times, November 20, 1978
  6. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Press, November 6, 1978
  7. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, November 6, 1978
  8. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Times, November 6, 1978
  9. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Press, November 6, 1978
  10. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, November 6, 1978
  11. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Times, November 6, 1978
Preceded by All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship
1964 – present 		Succeeded by
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