All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship - Highlights & Incidents

Highlights & Incidents

Highlights and incidents through the history of the championship include:

• The first final in which Dublin, captained by Association president Máire Gill and helped by two Bray players, beat Galway 3-2 to 0-2 at Galway Sportsfield in the summer of 1933, refereed by Stephen Jordan TD,
• Six goals (of Cork’s seven) scored by Kitty Buckley of Old Aloysius for Cork v Dublin n the 1941 final.
• The 1942 final, broadcast on radio for the first time and the 1943 final between Dublin and Cork which set an attendance record of 9,136. In the absence of accurate figures for the 1962 final which may have had a higher attendance, it set a record that stood until 1995.
• The rival 1945 “official” and “unofficial” finals, the result of splits in the association which occurred intermittently between 1938 and 1951, with a number of "official" and "unofficial" competitions, "new" and "old" associations and widespread confusion. Cork had pulled out of the 1944 Munster championship and Dublin pulled out of the 1945 All-Ireland championship over the dispute over male officials.
• The 1946 final in Corrigan Park on front of a gate of £230, in which Antrim defeated Cork, leading to Corrigan Park’s depiction by the press as the “home of camogie.”
• The 1948 final won by CIE club who represented Dublin en masse, as the county board was in dispute with the association.
• The 1949 home final in which Kathleen Cody scored 6-7 of Dublin’s 8-7 total in the final.
• Dublin’s winning streak, longest in the history of Gaelic games, winning 18 out of 19 titles between 1948 and 1966. They were unbeaten in the Leinster championship between July 26, 1936 and June 2, 1968. Kathleen Mills won 15 All-Ireland medals between 1941 and 1962, Sophie Brack won eight All-Ireland medals in succession and competed in nine successive finals. Úna O'Connor won ten All-Ireland medals.
• Sophie Brack’s four goals in the 1951 final.
• The 1955 final between Dublin and Cork, regarded as the greatest of its era, with the performance of Sophie Brack rated as the best individual display.
• Antrim’s victory over Dublin in the 1956 semi-final to prevent 19-in-a-row, Marian Kearns scoring the winning goal. Antrim's star goalkeeper in the semi-final and final victory over Cork, Theresa Cairns, was just 14.
• Dublin’s revenge victory over Antrim in 1957 with a last-minute winning goal from Bríd Reid followed by a dramatic goal line save by Eileen Duffy.
• Judy Doyle’s four goals in the 1964 final and five in the 1965 final.
• The extraordinary end to the 1966 semi-final between Dublin and Tipperary when Tipperary, expecting to have won by a point, were told instead that they had lost by a point after a hastily-convened Central Council meeting in a nearby hotel.
• The “and Mairéad must score” moment at the end of the 1966 final when Mairéad Carabine doubled on a falling ball to send it inches over the crossbar when a goal would have earned a replay for Anrim against Dublin.
• Sue Cashman’s equalising point for Antrim in the 1967 final; they won the replay with a great display by Mairéad McAtamney.
• Wexford’s breakthrough victory in 1968
• The display by Liz Garvan in bringing Cork back to the podium in 1970, scoring 3-6 of Cork’s 5-7 in the final.
• The 1973 season when the All-Ireland championship reverted to its original format, the open draw.
• Cally Riordan of Cork becoming the only person male or female to win two All Ireland medals in the one day when appearing for both Junior and Senior teams in the 1973 finals.
• Kilkenny’s emergence after a replayed final in 1974, with the help of a winning goal by Ursula Grace and a player of the match performance from a young Angela Downey.
• Gretta Quigley’s performance in captaining Wexford to victory in 1975 the day after she was married
• Cork’s last gasp point from Mary O’Leary, sister of Seanie, to win the 1982 final.
• Angela Downey’s famous goal in 1989, scored despite the fact she lost both hurley and skirt as she bore down on goal.
• Lynn Dunlea’s three goals in the 1993 final.
• Linda Mellerick’s last minute goal in 1995 to secure Cork’s victory over Kilkenny.
• Galway’s breakthrough victory in 1996 with two goals from 18 year old Denise Gilligan
• Irene O’Keeffe’s two first half goals in 1998 to help Cork win the first final to be shown live on television.
• Tipperary’s breakthrough victory in 1999, with the 14-year-old Claire Grogan on the team, and retention of title the following year with two early goals from Deirdre Hughes and subsequent rivalry with Cork. Tipperary won five All Irelands in six years.