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Crossmaglen Rangers Gaelic Athletic Club is a GAA club in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. They cater for Gaelic football and camogie. Their home football ground is St. Oliver Plunkett Park, which was opened in 1959. In 1971 the British Army took possession of a portion of the ground despite opposition from the club and the Irish Government, and this led to a controversy regarding the British Army's conduct.
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Catherine ‘Cathy’ Landers is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1983. She won four All Ireland senior medals, three previously in 1978, 1980 and 1982. She played in six further All Ireland finals. Also her son Séamus Harnedy plays with the Cork Senior Hurling Team and has won a Munster medal and one All Star Award
Ann Carroll is a camogie player. twice an All Ireland inter-county medalist and the outstanding personality in the first decade of the history of the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship winning medals with both St Patrick’s, Glengoole from Tipperary and St Paul’s from Kilkenny. She played inter-county camogie for both Tipperary and Kilkenny and Interprovincial camogie for both Munster and Leinster.
Sharon Glynn is a camogie player and manager, an All Ireland medalist in 1996 and the star of her county’s 2002 victory in the National Camogie League when she scored three goals in Galway’s 6-6 to 1-7 victory over Limerick. She was nominated for an All Star award in 2005.
Kathleen Marks ,, is a former camogie player, who played for Tipperary in four All Ireland Camogie Championship finals without achieving the long-awaited breakthrough for Tipperary.
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.
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- ↑ "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Historic coverage and reports of camogie finals
- ↑ "Family effort pays dividends in Glenbeigh". irish examiner. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
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