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Cuchulainns is a camogie club that participated in the foundation of the game of camogie in 1904. Cuchulainns wore a navy gym tunic with a dark blue and white checked blouse.
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Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities.
A sliotar or sliothar is a hard solid sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together. Sometimes called a "hurling ball", it resembles a baseball with more pronounced stitching. It is used in the Gaelic games of hurling, camogie, rounders and shinty.
The Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or Dublin GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the Dublin Region and the Dublin county teams. The teams and their fans are known as "The Dubs" or "Boys in Blue". The fans have a special affiliation with the Hill 16 end of Croke Park.
The All-Ireland Poc Fada Hurling & Camogie Championships is an annual tournament testing the skills of Ireland's best hurlers and camogie players. Poc Fada is Irish for "long puck". The championships are sponsored by Martin Donnelly.
Athy GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. The club has won seven county senior football championships.
Grangenolvin G.F.C. is a Gaelic football (GFC) club based in southern County Kildare, Ireland. The club competes in the County Kildare GAA board league and cup system. Grangenolvin are a former AIB club of the year winner in 1985. Mick Carolan was chosen on the Kildare football team of the millennium and was a Cuchulainn All Stars Award winner in 1966.
Crumlin GAA Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland.
Éire Óg-Corrachoill is a hurling club based in the parish of Caragh in County Kildare. The parish of Caragh includes the village of Caragh itself, surrounding townlands and Prosperous village which is situated about 3 km north-west from the village. The club is the result of an amalgamation which occurred in 1994 between Éire Óg of Caragh and Corra Choill of Prosperous. The first record of any kind of success in the Caragh parish area involves the Clongorey Campaigners. RIC records from 1890 show that Clongorey Campaigners had 38 members with Dan Kelly, John Murphy, Pat Fullam and James Kelly listed as officers. Clongorey reached the Senior Hurling Championship final in 1891 and but were defeated by Maynooth. Their home ground is in donore just opposite the motor racing circuit Mondello Park.
Maeve Gilroy is a former camogie player, winner of the Cuchulainn award in 1966 and of All Ireland medals in 1956 and 1967.
Clare Hanrahan is a former camogie player, winner of the Cuchulainn award in 1965. Having previously starred in attack for Kilkenny in their Leinster junior victories of 1959 and 1960 she burst on to the scene with four goals for Leinster in the 1960 Gael Linn Cup final and was Leinster's most effective forward over the next five years.
Mary Connery is a former camogie player, winner of the Cuchulainn award presented by Gaelic Weekly magazine in 1965.
Teresa Murphy is a former camogie player, winner of a Cuchulainn All Star award in 1964.
Alice ‘Ally’ Hussey is a former camogie player winner of six All Ireland medals and a Cuchulainn All Star award in 1965.
Deirdre Sutton is a former camogie player, winner of the Cuchulainn all star award in 1963, the first major national award instituted in the Irish field sport for women of camogie.
Eileen Naughton was the star of Galway's All-Ireland final appearance against Dublin in 1962 and UCG's Ashbourne Cup win of 1968, she was short-listed for Cuchulainn all star awards in 1963 and 1964, despite missing part of the season through injury.
Keady Lámh Dhearg Hurling Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Keady in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The club, affiliated to Armagh GAA, is almost exclusively concerned with the game of hurling; a sister club, Keady Michael Dwyer's GFC, provides for Gaelic football.
The 1985 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1985 season. The championship was won by Killkenny who defeated Dublin by a five-point margin in the final for a first success in four years. The match drew an attendance of 3,500.
The 1949 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1949 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Dublin, who defeated London by a 22-point margin in the final "proper" at Croke Park having earlier defeated Tipperary by a 17-point margin in a poorly attended home final in Roscrea. They were to play London in a final "proper" on 4 December, which fell through.
The 1985 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Crumlin Cuchulainns from Dublin), who defeated Athenry from Galway in the final, played at O'Toole Park. Crumlin fielded half the Dublin team that won the 1984 All-Ireland senior championship.
Cúchulainn an Ghleanna is a Gaelic Athletic Association and camogie club in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club was formed in December 2016 to establish a juvenile hurling and camogie club in the Clogher Valley region of Tyrone in what is described as "a football heartland". The catchment area of the club includes the villages of Ballygawley, Augher, Clogher, Aghaloo, Aughnacloy and Killeeshil.
