All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1977

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All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1977
Winners
Champions Athenry (Galway) (1st title)
Captain Teresa Duane
Runners-up
Runners-up Portglenone (Ant)

The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Athenry from Galway, who defeated Portglenone from Antrim 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 Ballyagran defeating Drom & Inch and Éire Óg from Cork to win the Munster championship and St Paul’s winning the Leinster championship. Athenry drew their strength from the successful local Presentation Convent team, and were Connacht champions for the third year in succession.

The Final

Athenry’s overwhelming victory was certain from the start of the final and they led 5-4 to 0-1 at half-time and they maintain control in the second half against the breeze. Theresa Duane and Anne Morris scored four goals each. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:

Excellent defensive work by Noreen Tracey, Anne Duane and Anne Delaney kept the Ulster champions at bay throughout and the winners forwards continued to score virtually at will. Particularly prominent were Olive Coady on the wing and Midge Pionard at centrefield.

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Final stages

Athenry (Gal)3-3 – 2-3 Ballyagran

Portglenone (Ant)1-4 – 0-3 St Paul’s

Athenry (Gal)10-5 – 1-1 Portglenone (Ant)
Athenry (Gal):
GK1 Breda Coady
FB2 Noreen Treacy
RWB3 Gretta O'Brien
CB4 Ann Duane
LWB5 Anne Delaney
MF6 Olive Coady
MF7 Midge Poniard
MF8 Madge Hobbins
RWF9 Marion Freaney
CF10 Mary Daly
LWF11 Anne Morris
FF12 Teresa Duane
Portglenone (Ant):
GK1 Sue Dillon
FB2 Ann Kelly
RWB3 Enda Webb
CB4 Jackie McAtamney
LWB5 Vera McAleese
MF6 Mairéad McAtamney
MF7 Siobhán McAtamney
MF8 Claire McIlvenna
RWF9 Ann Marie O'Neill
CF10 Sheena McAtamney
LWF11 Briege Kelly
FF12 Patricia O'Doherty

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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
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  4. Report of final in Irish Independent, March 19, 1978 competition of 1977
  5. Report of final in Irish Times, March 19, 1978 competition of 1977
  6. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, March 6, 1978
  7. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, March 6, 1978
  8. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, March 6, 1978
  9. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, March 13, 1978
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Preceded by All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship
1964 – present
Succeeded by