Code: | Camogie |
Province: | Leinster |
Mary Walsh | |
Irish: | Máire Bhreathnach |
Sport: | Camogie |
Position: | half forward |
County: | Wexford |
Club: | St Ibar’s-Shelmalier |
Clapps(Points): | ? |
Clposition: | half forward |
Icyears: | 1963-72 |
Icapps(Points): | ? |
Counties: | Wexford |
Icposition: | half forward |
Clupdate: | (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)) |
Icupdate: | (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)) |
Birth Place: | Monageer Enniscorthy, Ireland |
Mary Walsh is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1968.[1] All Ireland senior medals in 1969.[2]
She was the outstanding Wexford player of the era, playing Gael Linn Cup inter-provincial camogie and starred for Wexford in their unsuccessful 1966 Leinster final bid. She was named Power’s Gold Label Wexford camogie player of the year in 1971, having previously won a Wexford sportsperson of the year award for tennis in 1968 and 1970.
She played in the 1972 Leinster final the day after she married Larry Cahill from Rathnure.