All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1977

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1977
Winners
ChampionsAthenry (Galway) (1st title)
CaptainTeresa Duane
Runners-up
Runners-upPortglenone (Ant)

The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Athenry from Galway, who defeated Portglenone from Antrim in the final, played at Athenry .[1][2]

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Ballyagran defeating Drom & Inch and Éire Óg from Cork to win the Munster championship and St Paul’s winning the Leinster championship. Athenry drew their strength from the successful local Presentation Convent team, and were Connacht champions for the third year in succession.

The Final

Athenry’s overwhelming victory was certain from the start of the final and they led 5-4 to 0-1 at half-time and they maintain control in the second half against the breeze. Theresa Duane and Anne Morris scored four goals each. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:

Excellent defensive work by Noreen Tracey, Anne Duane and Anne Delaney kept the Ulster champions at bay throughout and the winners forwards continued to score virtually at will. Particularly prominent were Olive Coady on the wing and Midge Pionard at centrefield.

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Final stages

Athenry (Gal)3-3 – 2-3Ballyagran
Portglenone (Ant)1-4 – 0-3St Paul’s
Athenry (Gal)10-5 – 1-1Portglenone (Ant)
Athenry (Gal):
GK 1 Breda Coady
FB 2 Noreen Treacy
RWB 3 Gretta O'Brien
CB 4 Ann Duane
LWB 5 Anne Delaney
MF 6 Olive Coady
MF 7 Midge Poniard
MF 8 Madge Hobbins
RWF 9 Marion Freaney
CF 10 Mary Daly
LWF 11 Anne Morris
FF 12 Teresa Duane
Portglenone (Ant):
GK 1 Sue Dillon
FB 2 Ann Kelly
RWB 3 Enda Webb
CB 4 Jackie McAtamney
LWB 5 Vera McAleese
MF 6 Mairéad McAtamney
MF 7 Siobhán McAtamney
MF 8 Claire McIlvenna
RWF 9 Ann Marie O'Neill
CF 10 Sheena McAtamney
LWF 11 Briege Kelly
FF 12 Patricia O'Doherty

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 19, 1978 competition of 1977
  4. ^ Report of final in Irish Independent, March 19, 1978 competition of 1977
  5. ^ Report of final in Irish Times, March 19, 1978 competition of 1977
  6. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Press, March 6, 1978
  7. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, March 6, 1978
  8. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Times, March 6, 1978
  9. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Press, March 13, 1978
  10. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, March 13, 1978
  11. ^ Report of semi-final in Irish Times, March 13, 1978
Preceded by All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship
1964 – present 		Succeeded by