Ciara Gaynor

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Ciara Gaynor
Personal information
Irish name Ciara Nic Fhionnbairr
Sport Camogie
Position Centre half back
Born 1979
Tipperary, Ireland
Club(s)
YearsClub
Kilruane
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1997-2005
Tipperary
Inter-county titles
All-Irelands 5
All Stars 1

Ciara Gaynor is a camogie player, winner of an All-Star award in 2004, a Lynchpin award, predecessor of the All Star awards, in 2003, [1] and five All Ireland medals in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004.

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Family background

Ciara's father Len Gaynor was a double All Ireland hurling medalist with Tipperary, manager of the Clare and Tipperary hurling teams and the Tipperary camogie team. She won an All-Ireland schools' medal in 1994 with St Mary's. Nenagh alongside fellow All Star winner Suzanne Kelly.[ citation needed ]

Career

She played in six successive All Ireland finals for Tipperary winning All Ireland medals in 1999, [2] 2000, [3] 2001, [4] 2002, [5] 2003 [6] and 2004. [7] She won Intermediate All Ireland honours with Tipperary in 1997.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Camogie All Stars". Camogie.ie. Cumann Camógaíochta. 13 November 2009. Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  2. 1999 Tipperary 0-12 Kilkenny 1-8 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Irish Independent and Irish Times also comment on reversal of League final result
  3. 2000 Tipperary 2-11 Cork 1-9 All Ireland final report in Irish Times
  4. 2001 Tipperary 4-13 Kilkenny 1-6 All Ireland final reports in Irish Independent and Irish Times
  5. 2002 Cork 4-9 Tipperary 1-9 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner Archived 2012-12-03 at archive.today , Irish Independent, and Irish Times
  6. 2003 Tipperary 2-11 Cork 1-11 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner Archived 2012-12-02 at archive.today , Irish Independent, and Irish Times
  7. 2004 Tipperary 2-11 Cork 0-9 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine , Irish Independent, and 481 Rebelgaa.com Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine