Veronica Curtin
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Veronica Nic Chuirtín | ||
| Sport | Camogie | ||
| Born | Galway, Ireland | ||
| Club(s)* | |||
| Years | Club | Apps (scores) | |
| Craughwell | ? | ||
| Inter-county(ies)** | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| Galway | ? | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| All Stars | 2 | ||
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* club appearances and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 December 2009 (UTC)). **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 December 2009 (UTC)). | |||
Veronica Curtin (born 1979 or 1980)[1] is a former inter-county camogie player with Galway. She played in the 2008, 2010[2] and 2011 All Ireland finals.[3][4] With a total of 5-15, she was the sixth highest scoring player in the 2011 Senior Camogie Championship. Curtin won camogie All Star awards in 2006 and 2007 and was an All Star nominee in 2010.[5]
Career
[edit]Curtin won the Junior All Ireland and Minor All Ireland camogie finals in 1994 - being awarded "Player of the match" in both finals.[citation needed]
She was 16 when she was part of the Galway senior team that won Galway's first ever All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship title in 1996.[1]
She scored 1-5 out of Galway's total of 1-6 when her county won the 2005 National Camogie League final.[6] She scored two goals in Galway's All Ireland semi-final draw with Cork in the 2010 championship.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sideline Chat With Veronica Curtin". advertiser.ie. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
she was on the 1996 winning All Ireland Galway team, aged 16
- ^ "2010 All-Ireland Final report". Irish Examiner. and Irish Independent and Irish Independent match at a glance, Irish Times colour piece and match report, comment by Tom Humphries and Mary Hannigan, RTÉ online Archived 2011-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, Irish Times online and RTÉ online match-tracker Archived 2010-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Wexford 2-07 Galway 1-08". RTÉ Sport. 11 September 2011. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ 2011 final Wexford 2-7 Galway 1-8 Report in Camogie.ie[permanent dead link] Connacht Tribune Archived 26 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine Enniscorthy Echo Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Galway Advertiser Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Camogie.ie[permanent dead link], RTE Online Archived 2012-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Tuam Herald Archived 1 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Wexford People Homecoming in Enniscorthy Echo Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Wexford People Preview in Irish Examiner Irish Times Irish Independent
- ^ "2010 All star nominees". rte.ie. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "2005 Galway 1-6 Cork 0-6 report". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.