1983 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Explained

Year:	1983
Dates:	June – 25 September 1983
Team:	Cork
Titles:	14th
Captain:	Cathy Landers
Team2:	Dublin
Captain2:	Marion Conroy
Previous:	1982
Next:	1984

The 1983 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was won by Cork, beating Dublin by a two-point margin in the final.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Arrangement

A record eleven counties participated in the championship, the highest number since the separation of senior and junior championships in 1968. Antrim withdrew from the championship and gave a walkover to Cork in their tie scheduled for June 19. Tipperary surprised fancied Galway in the quarter-final.

Final

Claire Kelleher scored the clinching goal for Cork five minutes from the end, carrying the ball round the hitherto impenetrable Dublin defence without having the ball tapped off her stick. That score left two points between the sides and although Dublin used all their resources they could not break down the resolute Cork defence. Cork shot a surfeit of wides in the first half and did not get their first score until the 12th minute, when Dublin were three points up. Val Fitzpatrick then hit a cracking shot which Yvonne Redmond could not hold to make it 1–1 to 0-3 and Mary Geaney went on to give Cork the lead for the first time.^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}

Final stages

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CORK: GK 1 Marion McCarthy (Éire Óg) FB 2 Eileen Dineen (Éire Óg) RWB 3 Miriam Higgins (Éire Óg) CB 4 Cathy Landers (Killeagh) (Capt) LWB 5 Martha Kearney MF 6 Clare Cronin (Old Als) MF 7 MF 8 Sandie Fitzgibbon (Glen Rovers) RWF 9 Mary O'Leary (Watergrasshill) (0-4) CF 10 Val Fitzpatrick (Glen Rovers) (1-0) LWF 11 Claire Kelleher (1-0) FF 12 Mary Geaney (Éire Óg) (0-1) Substitutes: MF Ger McCarthy (Glen Rovers) for Sweeney

DUBLIN: GK 1 Yvonne Redmond (Cúchulainn Crumlin) FB 2 Anne O'Brien (Cúchulainn Crumlin) RWB 3 Catherine Ledwidge (Phoenix) CB 4 Bernie Toner (Cuala Naomh Mhuire) LWB 5 Germaine Noonan (UCD) MF 6 Una Crowley (Celtic) (Capt) MF 7 Edel Murphy (UCD) (0-4) MF 8 Barbara Redmond (Cúchulainn Crumlin) RWF 9 Anna Condon (Austin Stacks) CF 10 Mary Mernagh (Cuala Naomh Mhuire) (1-0) LWF 11 Marion Conroy (Austin Stacks) (Capt) (0-2) FF 12 Joan Gormley (UCD) Substitutes: LWF Anne Thorpe (An Caisleán Walkinstown) for Crowley RWF Ann Colgan (Celtic) for Thorpe

MATCH RULES

• 50 minutes
• Replay if scores level
• Maximum of 3 substitutions

See also

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
• Wikipedia List of Camogie players
• National Camogie League
• Camogie All Stars Awards
• Ashbourne Cup

External links

• Official Camogie website
• History of Camogie senior championship slideshow. presented by Cumann Camógaíochta Communications Committee at GAA Museum January 25, 2010 part one, part two, part three and part four
• Historic newspaper reports of All Ireland finals
• Camogie on official GAA website
• Timeline: History of Camogie
• Camogie on GAA Oral History Project
• Camogie Websites for Antrim and Dublin

Notes and References

1. Book: Moran, Mary . Mary Moran (camogie) . A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie . Cumann Camógaíochta . 2011 . Dublin, Ireland . 460. 978-1-908591-00-5
2. Report of final in Irish Press, September 26, 1983
3. Report of final in Irish Independent, September 26, 1983
4. Report of final in Irish Times, September 26, 1983
5. Report of final in Irish Examiner, September 26, 1983
6. Report of final in Irish News, September 26, 1983
7. Report of final in Irish Press, September 26, 1983
8. Report of final in Irish Independent, September 26, 1983
9. Report of final in Irish Times, September 26, 1983
10. Report of final in Irish Examiner, September 26, 1983
11. Report of final in Irish News, September 26, 1983