Camogie in County Cork
Camogie in County Cork is administered by the Cork County Board of the Camogie Association.
History
Síle Horgan, Lil Kirby, Mary Moran, Mary O’Callaghan, Joan O’Flynn and Lil O’Grady served as presidents of the Camogie Association).
Cork have won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship on 25 occasions (click on date for teams) in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1980, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2014
Notable players include team of the century members Marie Costine, Sandie Fitzgibbon, Linda Mellerick and Pat Moloney, player of the year recipients Briege Corkery, Claire Cronin, Marion McCarthy, Teresa Murphy, Aoife Murray, Mary O’Leary, Fiona O’Driscoll, Gemma O'Connor, Mary O'Connor and Deirdre Sutton, All Star award winners[1] Kitty Buckley, Rena Buckley, Síle Burns, Orla Cotter, Emer Dillon, Lynn and Stephanie Dunlea, Cathriona Foley, Anna Geary, Rachel Moloney and Jennifer O'Leary, and Elaine Burke, Ann Comerford, Kathleen Cotter, Kathleen Delea, Denise Cronin, Hannah Dineen, Eithne Duggan, Renee Fitzgerald, Vivienne Harris, Cathy Landers, Pat Lenihan, Josie McGrath, Therése O'Callaghan, Nancy O’Driscoll, Irene O’Keeffe and Betty Sugrue.
Under Camogie’s National Development Plan 2010-2015, “Our Game, Our Passion,”[2] five new camogie clubs are to be established in the county by 2015.[3]
Cork have won the National Camogie League on 16 occasions (click on date for teams) in 1984, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013
Clubs
Glen Rovers (4) Killeagh (1980) and Milford GAA (2) 2013 and 2014 have won the All Ireland senior club championship.
County teams
The Cork senior camogie team represents Cork in the National Camogie League and the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship. There are also intermediate, junior, under-21 and minor teams.
References
- ^ All-stars on camogie.ie
- ^ Irish Independent March 29 2010: Final goal for camogie
- ^ National Development Plan 2010-2015, Our Game, Our Passion information page on camogie.ie, pdf download (778k) from Camogie.ie download site