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- ↑ "The Echo Rebel Legends final: Rena Buckley v Sandie Fitzgibbon". The Echo (Cork newspaper). 11 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ↑ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.
- ↑ "Oh Sandie!" Cork Independent 14 February 2013. Retrieved 7-21-2013.
- ↑ Camogie.ie Team of the Century profiles by Mary Moran
- ↑ Cormican, Eoghan (8 September 2018). "Super Sandie Fitzgibbon set the standard". Irish Examiner . Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ↑ Coughlin, John (4 April 2020). "The Leeside legends series: Sandie Fitz the bill as a camogie and basketball dynamo". The Echo (Cork newspaper) . Retrieved 12 March 2021.