All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1975

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All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1975
Winners
Champions Croagh-Kilfinny (Limerick) (1st title)
Captain Bridie Stokes
Runners-up
Runners-up Athenry (Gal)

The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Croagh-Kilfinny from Limerick, who defeated Athenry from Galway in the final, played at Athenry . [1] [2]

Contents

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Newry Shamrocks and Buffers Alley winning the championships of the other two provinces. Buffers Alley had 11 wides in their semi-final against Athenry.

The Final

Bríd Stokes scored three goals as Croagh-Kilfinny came from behind in extra time to win an exciting final by one point. [3] [4] [5]

The Programme

Later the match programme became one of the most sought after collectors’ items in the code of camogie. Pádraig Puirséil wrote in the Irish Press:

In one respect camogie and Athenry were winners by a distance. At Thurles for the club hurling final, we had a single sheet four page programme which gave us the teams, the referee, the starting time and that, let’s face it, is the type of program that has filled the bill satisfactorily at such games to date colleague Peadar O'Brien tells me there was no programme at the club football final in Portlaoise. In complete contrast the distaff side of my family brought back from Athenry a 20-page, well-orinbted programme that included, as well as the names of the players, brief histories of the clubs concerned and of the Camogie Association, plus pictures of the two teams. The programme was entirely produced by the Athenry camogie club, with obvious support from local traders and, in this respect, the camogie club final was so much ahead of its hurling and football counterparts that there was simply on comparison.

Final stages

Croagh-Kilfinny (Lk)5-4 – 4-4 Newry Shamrocks (Down)

Athenry (Galway)0-5 – 0-3 Buffers Alley (Wexford)

Croagh-Kilfinny (Lk)4-6 – 4-5 after extra time Athenry (Gal)
Croagh-Kilfinny
GK1 Helen Sheehy
FB2 Margaret Hickey
RWB3 Margie Neville
CB4 Anne O'Flynn
LWB5 Eileen O'Keeffe
MF6 Anne Sheehy
MF7 Mary T. Hannon
MF8 Helen Mulcair
RWF9 Mary Fitzgerald
CF10 Marion Doyle (1–6)
LWF11 Margie O'Sullivan
FF12 Bríd Stokes (captain) (3–0)
Athenry
GK1 Breda Coady
FB2 Madeline Coady
RWB3 Josephine Coen
CB4 Ann Duane
LWB5 Noreen Treacy
MF6 Midge Poniard
MF7 Sarita Coady
MF8 Ann O'Donoghue
RWF9 Mary Daly
CF10 Olive Coady
LWF11 Bernie Poniard
FF12 Teresa Duane

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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, March 14, 1976, competition of 1975
  4. Report of final in Irish Independent, March 14, 1976, competition of 1975
  5. Report of final in Irish Times, March 14, 1976, competition of 1975
  6. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, September 2, 1975
  7. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, September 2, 1975
  8. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, September 2, 1975
  9. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, September 9, 1975
  10. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, September 9, 1975
  11. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, September 9, 1975
Preceded by All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship
1964 – present
Succeeded by