Mary Sinnott

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Mary Sinnott
Personal information
Irish name Máire Ní Sionoid
Sport Dual player
Position corner-back
Born 1943 (age 80–81)
Aughfad, Ireland
Died 2 November 2024
Club(s)
YearsClub
1958-78
 Taghmon and Oylegate-Glenbrien
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1958-78
 Wexford
Inter-county titles
All-Irelands 2
All Stars 2004 Team of Century

Mary Sinnott born 1943 in Aughfad, County Wexford, Ireland as Mary Dinan, was a former camogie and badminton player.

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Biography

Mary Dinan was born Mary Sinnott in Aughfad, County Wexford in 1943. She was the daughter of John and Mai Sinnott (nee O'Connor). She had two brothers, Nicholas and Sean. Her uncle was Mick O'Hanlon a hurler in the Wexford All-Ireland winning teams in 1955 and 1956. She attended Loreto Convent in Wexford. She married Gay Dinan in Taghmon in 1968, and the couple moved to Dublin. They had one daughter, Elizabeth (born 1969). [1]

Camogie

She was selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of All Ireland medals in 1968 and 1969.

She played club Camogie with Taghmon and Oylegate-Glenbrien. She also held two Gael Linn interprovincial medals and held her place on the Leinster team for ten years. In 1965 she was Wexford Player of the Year and received the Hall of Fame Award in 1980. [2]

Her citation read "Tall and athletic, Mary was very confident on the ball, a fine catcher and striker, she was capable of turning defence into attack with one puck of the sliotar." [3]

Badminton

Having moved to Dublin, Dinan joined Pembroke Club, [4] from where she joined the Leinster badminton team. Later she moved to KADCA, winning the Irish Open and six national titles. In 1975, she won her first international cap against the Netherlands, going on to represent Ireland 59 times. In Norway in 1981, she won the Helvetia Cup with seven other players. She retired from badminton in 1983, following winning Ladies Doubles with Wendy Orr and the Mixed with John Scott for the first time against England since 1903. [1] [5] [6]

From 2002 to 2009, she has trained the Wexford badminton team when they won four All-Ireland victories. She coached Sonya McGinn, the first Irish Olympian badminton player. She served as the president of the Leinster branch of Badminton Ireland. [1] [5]

In Badminton she represented Ireland on 59 occasions, was voted Wexford Badminton Star in 1965 and again in 1988.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bunbury, Turtle. "MARY SINNOTT-DINAN: CAMOGIE & BADMINTON". Turtle Bunbury: Writer and Historian. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  2. ↑ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.
  3. ↑ Camogie.ie Team of the Century profiles by Mary Moran
  4. ↑ "Pembroke Badminton Club". Sport Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Dinan will coach Wexford county badminton sides". Wexford People. 30 October 2003. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Home Page - 1 November 2016". Badminton Museum Ireland. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
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