Ciara Gaynor

Ciara Gaynor

Personal information
Irish name	Ciara Níc Fionnbairr
Sport	Camogie
Position	Centre half back
Born	1979 Tipperary, Ireland
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Kilruane
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1997-2005	Tipperary
Inter-county titles
All-Irelands	5
All Stars	1

Ciara Gaynor is a camogie player, winner of an All-Star award in 2004, a Lynchpin award, predecessor of the All Star awards, in 2003,^[1] and five All Ireland medals in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004.

Family background

Ciara’s father Len Gaynor was a double All Ireland hurling medalist with Tipperary, manager of the Clare and Tipperary hurling teams and the Tipperary camogie team. She won an All-Ireland schools' medal in 1994 with St Mary's. Nenagh alongside fellow All Star winner Suzanne Kelly.

Career

She played in six successive All Ireland finals for Tipperary winning All Ireland medals in 1999,^[2] 2000,^[3] 2001,^[4] 2002,^[5] 2003^[6] and 2004.^[7] She won Intermediate All Ireland honours with Tipperary in 1997.

References

1. "Camogie All Stars". Camogie.ie. Cumann Camógaíochta. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
2. 1999 Tipperary 0-12 Kilkenny 1-8 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Irish Independent and Irish Times also comment on reversal of League final result
3. 2000 Tipperary 2-11 Cork 1-9 All Ireland final report in Irish Times
4. 2001 Tipperary 4-13 Kilkenny 1-6 All Ireland final reports in Irish Independent and Irish Times
5. 2002 Cork 4-9 Tipperary 1-9 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, and Irish Times
6. 2003 Tipperary 2-11 Cork 1-11 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, and Irish Times
7. 2004 Tipperary 2-11 Cork 0-9 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, and 481 Rebelgaa.com