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The Limerick County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or Limerick GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Limerick. The county board is also responsible for the Limerick county teams.
Rena Buckley is an Irish sportswoman who played at senior level for both the Cork county ladies' football team and the Cork county camogie team. She has also represented Munster in the Gael Linn Cup and Ireland at international rules. Between 2005 and 2017 she won 18 All-Ireland winners medals, making her one of most decorated sportspeople in Gaelic games. In 2012 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship and in 2017 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship. She was the first player to captain Cork to both All-Ireland senior championships. She was also named as an All Star on eleven occasions. In 2015 Buckley and her team mate and fellow dual player, Briege Corkery, were named joint winners of the 2015 The Irish Times/ Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year Award.
Mary Geaney is an Irish sportswoman. She played senior ladies' Gaelic football for Kerry, senior camogie for Cork and is also a former Ireland women's field hockey international. In 1976 she captained Kerry when they won the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship and in 1980 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship. She was the first player to captain a team to both championships. As a field hockey international, she was a member of the Ireland team that won the 1983 Women's Intercontinental Cup. In 2010 she was inducted into the Irish Hockey Association Hall of Fame.
Mary Moran was the 18th president of the Camogie Association, elected at the 1973 Congress in the Blarney Hotel in a run-off against Mary Lynch of Monaghan.
Anna Geary is a camogie player and television personality from Milford, County Cork, Ireland.
Joanne Ryan is a camogie player, winner of an All-Star award in 2006 and All Ireland medals in 2001, 2003 and 2004 when she captained the team and scored the match-winning goal.
Josephine ‘Josie’ McGrath is a former camogie player, three times All Ireland medalist and captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1935. She won three further All Ireland senior medals in 1934, 1936, when she scored the fifth of Cork's six goals, and 1939.
Renee Fitzgerald is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1939, scoring four of Cork's six goals in the final.
Kathleen 'Kitty' Buckley is a former camogie player, five time All Ireland senior medalist and captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1941. In the final of that year, she scored a record six goals of Cork's seven. She had previously featured on All Ireland senior final panels in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, and 1940.
Geraldine ‘Gerry’ Hughes is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1961 and 1962.
Ann 'Nancy' O'Driscoll is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1978 and captain of the All Ireland junior winning team of 1973. She made her senior debut in 1974, played in that year's replayed All Ireland final and won a second All Ireland senior medal in 1980. She played field hockey for Ireland and also excelled at badminton.
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
Elizabeth Garvan is a camogie player, scorer of 3-6 of Cork's total of 5–7 in the All Ireland final of 1970. She won further All Ireland senior medals in 1971, 1972 and 1973.
Maura McNicholas is a former camogie player, winner of the AIB Gaelic Star award for Camogie Junior Player of the year in 1986.
Vera Mackey is a former camogie player, an All Ireland finalist in 1980.
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.
Therése O'Callaghan is a camogie player, captain of the winning National Camogie League team in 1991 and again in 1996. She also captained her club Glen Rovers to the All Ireland club championship of 1990.
Kathleen Marks , born in 1935, is a former camogie player, who played for Tipperary in four All Ireland Camogie Championship finals without achieving the long-awaited breakthrough for Tipperary.
Alice ‘Ally’ Hussey is a former camogie player winner of six All Ireland medals and a Cuchulainn All Star award in 1965.
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.
References
- ↑ "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
- ↑ Irish Independent (via Irish Newspaper Archives) (subscription required) 11 March 1965 Page 22: All stars announced
