Lynn Dunlea

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Lynn Dunlea
Personal information
Irish name Linn Ní Dhuinnshlé
Sport Camogie
Born 1974
Cork, Ireland
Club(s)*
YearsClubApps (scores)
Cloughduv [ broken anchor ] and Glen Rovers ?
Inter-county(ies)**
YearsCountyApps (scores)
1990-2001
Cork ?
* club appearances and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)).
**Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)).

Lynn Dunlea is a former camogie player, [1] scorer of three goals for Cork in their 1993 All Ireland final victory over Galway.

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Famous goal

She scored a breath-taking goal deep in injury-time during the All-Ireland semi-final against Kilkenny earlier that season. [2]

Career

She won four All Ireland senior medals in 1992, [3] 1993, 1997 [4] and 1998. [5] She won an All Ireland Club Championship medal with the Glen Rovers club in 1993, and seven National League medals.

For her club she scored 4-5 of their total of 6-12 in the 1993 club final and 0-14 of Glen Rovers 1-15 in their unsuccessful 1994 All Ireland club final against Lisdowney at Ballyragget,

Football

She won a women's football club title with Donoughmore in 2001. [6]

Injury and retirement

She retired at the age of 28 after suffering shoulder and neck injuries in the drawn All Ireland semi-final of 2001. [2] [7] Having played in the first All Ireland final to be televised live she was a television analyst for RTÉ camogie coverage in the 2000s.[ citation needed ]

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The 1993 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1993 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a ten-point margin in the final. The match drew an attendance of 5,400.

The 1995 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Bórd na Gaeilge All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 1995 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Killkenny by a four-point margin in the final, taking the lead for only the first time in the match with a goal by Linda Mellerick that dropped into the net from a long shot with just 30 seconds of normal time left. The match drew an attendance of 9,874, then the highest for a camogie-only final, beating the 52-year-old attendance record set for Dublin v Cork in 1943. Lynn Dunlea scored 4–20 in the championship.

The 1996 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Bórd na Gaeilge All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 1996 season. The championship was won for the first time in the county’s history by Galway who defeated Killkenny by a two-point margin in the final. The match drew an attendance of 10,235, then the highest in the history of camogie.

The 1998 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Bórd na Gaeilge All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 1998 season and the first All-Ireland Camogie Final to be televised live. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a four-point margin in the final. The match attracted an attendance of 10,436, a then record for the sport of camogie.

The 1997 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Bórd na Gaeilge All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 1997 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a four-point margin in the final. The match drew an attendance of 10,212, then the second highest in the history of camogie.

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References

  1. "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  2. 1 2 Uí Scolaí, Máire (20 April 2002). "Dunlea retirement stuns Cork camogie". Irish Independent. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  3. Historic newspaper reports of All Ireland finals
  4. 1997 All Ireland final Cork 0-15 Galway 2-5 reports in Irish Examiner Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine and Irish Times
  5. 1998 All Ireland final Cork 2-13 Galway 0-15 reports in Irish Examiner Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine , Irish Independent and Irish Times
  6. 2001 Donoughmore 3-6 Ballyboden 0-8 report in Irish Independent
  7. Foley, Cliona (14 September 2002). "Harrington inspired by pride in the parish". Irish Independent. Retrieved 1 July 2021.