Cork county camogie team

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Cork
Sport: Camogie
Irish:Corcaigh
Nickname(s):The Rebels [1]
The Leesiders
Home venue(s):Cork Camogie Grounds,
Castle Road
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The Cork county camogie team represents Cork in camogie. The team competes at inter-county level.

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Cork camogie has experienced four periods of ascendancy in the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, winning 24 titles in all. The team won six championships in an eight-year period, 1934-6 and 1939–41, won four-in-a-row 1970-4, won three titles in a five-year period 1978-83, five titles in a seven-year period 1992-8, and six more titles since 2002. The team also dominated the National Camogie League despite taking nine years to win their first title in 1984, winning seven-in-a-row 1995-2001 and ten titles in 13 years 1991-2003. Cork is the leading team at under-16 level, with 13 successes. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Rebelettes earn Laois date". Irish Independent. 21 August 2011.
  2. ↑ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour", RTÉ, 9 May 2008.
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