All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1975

The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Croagh-Kilfinny from Limerick, who defeated Athenry from Galway in the final, played at Athenry .[1][2]

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1975
Championship Details
Dates
Competitors
Sponsor
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship winners
Winners Croagh-Kilfinny (Limerick) (1st title)
Captain Bridie Stokes
Manager
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship Runners-up
Runners-up Athenry (Gal)
Captain
Manager
Matches played

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Newry Shamrocks and Buffers Alley winning the championships of the other two provinces. Buffers Alley had 11 wides in their semi-final against Athenry.

The Final

Bríd Stokes scored three goals as Croagh-Kilfinny came from behind in extra time to win an exciting final by one point.[3][4][5]

The Programme

Later the match programme became one of the most sought after collectors’ items in the code of camogie. Pádraig Puirséil wrote in the Irish Press:

In one respect camogie and Athenry were winners by a distance. At Thurles for the club hurling final, we had a single sheet four page programme which gave us the teams, the referee, the starting time and that, let’s face it, is the type of program that has filled the bill satisfactorily at such games to date colleague Peadar O'Brien tells me there was no programme at the club football final in Portlaoise. In complete contrast the distaff side of my family brought back from Athenry a 20-page, well-orinbted programme that included, as well as the names of the players, brief histories of the clubs concerned and of the Camogie Association, plus pictures of the two teams. The programme was entirely produced by the Athenry camogie club, with obvious support from local traders and, in this respect, the camogie club final was so much ahead of its hurling and football counterparts that there was simply on comparison.

Final stages
Croagh-Kilfinny (Lk)5-4 – 4-4Newry Shamrocks (Down)
Athenry (Galway)0-5 – 0-3Buffers Alley (Wexford)
Croagh-Kilfinny (Lk)4-6 – 4-5 after extra timeAthenry (Gal)
Croagh-Kilfinny
GK1Helen Sheehy
FB2Margaret Hickey
RWB3Margie Neville
CB4Anne O'Flynn
LWB5Eileen O'Keeffe
MF6Anne Sheehy
MF7Mary T. Hannon
MF8Helen Mulcair
RWF9Mary Fitzgerald
CF10Marion Doyle (1–6)
LWF11Margie O'Sullivan
FF12Bríd Stokes (captain) (3–0)
Athenry
GK1Breda Coady
FB2Madeline Coady
RWB3Josephine Coen
CB4Ann Duane
LWB5Noreen Treacy
MF6Midge Poniard
MF7Sarita Coady
MF8Ann O'Donoghue
RWF9Mary Daly
CF10Olive Coady
LWF11Bernie Poniard
FF12Teresa Duane

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 14, 1976, competition of 1975
  4. Report of final in Irish Independent, March 14, 1976, competition of 1975
  5. Report of final in Irish Times, March 14, 1976, competition of 1975
  6. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, September 2, 1975
  7. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, September 2, 1975
  8. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, September 2, 1975
  9. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, September 9, 1975
  10. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, September 9, 1975
  11. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, September 9, 1975
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