Miriam Malone

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Miriam Malone
Personal information
Irish name Miriam Ní Mhaoileoin
Sport Camogie
Position centre field
Born Kildare, Ireland
Club(s)*
YearsClubApps (scores)
Broadford ?
Inter-county(ies)**
YearsCountyApps (scores)
1966-1988
Kildare ?
* 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)).

Miriam Malone is a former camogie player, [1] winner of the AIB Gaelic Star Junior Player of the Year award in 1987.

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Career

Having played for Broadford since the formation of the camogie club and for Kildare county team since 1966, she scored 1-7 for Kildare in their breakthrough 1987 All Ireland Junior championship winning final against Armagh. She was selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century in 2004. [2] She won Leinster junior championship medals in 1967, 1969, 1981, 1986 and 1987 and captained Kildare in their first, unsuccessful All Ireland final appearance in 1986. She won Gael Linn Cup medals at senior and junior level with Leinster.

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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. Leinster Leader, 24 Nov 1984 [ full citation needed ]