1974 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1974
Championship Details
Dates
Competitors
Sponsor
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship winners
Winners St Paul’s (Kk (4th title)
Captain Angela Downey
Manager
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship Runners-up
Runners-up Oranmore (Gal)
Captain
Manager
Matches played

The 1974 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by St Paul’s from Kilkenny, who defeated Oranmore from Galway in the final, played at Ballinderrin .[1][2]

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Portglenone and University College Cork winning the championships of the other two provinces. Angela Downey acored 4–3 for St Paul’s, who had 11 of the Kilkenny senior panel to select from, in the semi-final against Portglenone at Nowlan Park. The UCC-Oranmore semi-final was played a s curtain raiser to the All-Ireland club football semi-final between Nemo Rangers and Lurgan’s Clanna Gael.

Downeys’ journey

The Downey twins traveled to Kilkeel Co Down from Kilkenny to play in the Al-Ireland colleges semi-final, via Monaghan (because a cross country team from St Brigid’s Callan was competing in the schools championship) and played in Callan’s one point win over Kilkeel. They then set out for Ballinderrin, near Craughwell in Co Galway to play for St Paul’s in the final of the club championship. Again the twins played an important part in their team’s victory and Angela scored St Pauls’ second goal

The Final

Mary Conway scored two goals for St Paul’s, who were held 1-0 to 1-0 at half-time.[3][4][5] Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:

In a closely contested first half the visitors got the fillip of an early goal when they were facing a stiff breeze and though the home side made plenty of raids on the St Pauls‘ defence they failed to register a score until Josie Kelly sent a neat pass to Pat Feeney, who netted to make the score one goal each, and so it remained until half-time. Kilkenny now with the wind advantage were quickly on the offensive and added a goal and a point.

Final stages

February 9
Semi-Final
St Paul’s (Kk 5-8 – 2-0 Portglenone


March 9, 1975
Final
St Paul’s (Kk 6-6 – 1-3 Oranmore (Gal)
Ballinderrin
St Paul’s:
GK 1 Teresa O'Neill
FB 2 Ann Carroll
RWB 3 Liz Neary
CB 4 Ann Downey
LWB 5 Mary Kavanagh
MF 6 Helena O'Neill
MF 7 Hanora Fogarty
MF 8 Mary Fennelly
RWF 9 Angela Downey
CF 10 Carmel Doyle
LWF 11 Ursula Grace
FF 12 Breda Coonan
Oranmore |-
GK 1 Margaret Burke
FB 2 Rita Jordan
RWB 3 Mandy Cosgrave
CB 4 Ann Dillon
LWB 5 Rosemary Divilly
MF 6 Grace Divilly
MF 7 Josie Kelly
MF 8 Nono McHugh
RWF 9 Marion Forde
CF 10 Anne Finn
LWF 11 Margaret Murphy
FF 12 Teresa Carroll

References

  1. Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460. 978-1-908591-00-5
  2. All Ireland club championships on Camogie.ie
  3. Report of final in Irish Press, March 10, 1975, competition of 1974
  4. Report of final in Irish Independent, March 10, 1975, competition of 1974
  5. Report of final in Irish Times, March 10, 1975, competition of 1974
  6. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, February 10, 1975
  7. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, February 10, 1975
  8. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, February 10, 1975
  9. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, February 24, 1975
  10. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, February 24, 1975
  11. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, February 24, 1975

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Preceded by
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1973
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship
1964 – present
Succeeded by
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1975
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