Veronica Curtin Explained

Code:Camogie
County:Galway
Province:Connacht
Veronica Curtin
Irish:Veronica Nic Chuirtín
Sport:Camogie
Position:Full Forward
Club:Craughwell
Clapps(Points):?
Icapps(Points):?
Counties:Galway
Allstars:2
Clupdate:(16:31, 30 December 2009 (UTC))
Icupdate:(16:31, 30 December 2009 (UTC))
Birth Place:Galway, Ireland

Veronica Curtin (born)[1] is a former inter-county camogie player with . She played in the 2008, 2010[2] and 2011 All Ireland finals.[3] [4] With a total of 5-15, she was the sixth highest scoring player in the 2011 Senior Camogie Championship. Curtin won camogie All Star awards in 2006 and 2007 and was an All Star nominee in 2010.[5]

Career

Curtin won the Junior All Ireland and Minor All Ireland camogie finals in 1994 - being awarded "Player of the match" in both finals.

She was 16 when she was part of the Galway senior team that won Galway's first ever All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship title in 1996.[1]

She scored 1-5 out of Galway's total of 1-6 when her county won the 2005 National Camogie League final.[6] She scored two goals in Galway's All Ireland semi-final draw with Cork in the 2010 championship.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sideline Chat With Veronica Curtin . advertiser.ie . 11 March 2021 . 11 August 2024 . she was on the 1996 winning All Ireland Galway team, aged 16 .
  2. Web site: 2010 All-Ireland Final report . Irish Examiner. and Irish Independent and Irish Independent match at a glance, Irish Times colour piece and match report, comment by Tom Humphries and Mary Hannigan, RTÉ online, Irish Times online and RTÉ online match-tracker
  3. Web site: Wexford 2-07 Galway 1-08 . 11 September 2011 . RTÉ Sport . 12 September 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120103225417/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2011/0911/wexford_galway.html . 3 January 2012 .
  4. 2011 final Wexford 2-7 Galway 1-8 Report in Camogie.ie Connacht Tribune Enniscorthy Echo Galway Advertiser Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Camogie.ie, RTE Online, Tuam Herald Wexford People Homecoming in Enniscorthy Echo Wexford People Preview in Irish Examiner Irish Times Irish Independent
  5. Web site: 2010 All star nominees . rte.ie . 4 October 2011 . 14 November 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101114143819/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2010/1008/wexford.html . dead .
  6. Web site: 2005 Galway 1-6 Cork 0-6 report . Irish Independent . 18 July 2010 . 24 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121024123204/http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/curtin-leads-way-in-rags-to-riches-tale-261562.html . dead .
  7. Book: Moran, Mary . A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie . Cumann Camógaíochta . 2011 . Dublin, Ireland . 460.

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