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- ↑ "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
- ↑ Historic newspaper reports of All Ireland finals
- ↑ John Gleeson: Fyffes Dictoonary of Irish Sporting Greats (1996) p122