All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1976

The 1976 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by St Paul’s from Kilkenny, who defeated Athenry from Galway in the final, played at Nowlan Park.[1][2]

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1976
Championship Details
Dates
Competitors
Sponsor
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship winners
Winners St Paul’s (Kilkenny (5th title)
Captain Mary Fennelly
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 Ahane and Creggan winning the championships of the other two provinces. Carmel Doyle and Ursula Grace scored the vital goals for St Paul’s against Ahane in the semi-final. Athenry travelled by air for their semi-final against Creggan.

The Final

Carmel Doyle doubled on an Angela Downey free for St Pauls’ second goal just before half time to lead 2-2 to 1-1 at half-time and they overcome Athenry’s spirited start to the second half to win. Carmel Doyle scored four goals in all and Angela Downey two.[3][4][5]

Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:

St Paul’s further enhanced their claim to be the outstanding camogie club in the country by winning the All Ireland club championship for the fifth time in just nine seasons. Despite some heavy rain, especially in the second half, the standard of camogie was amazingly high, and the final score did not do justice to the efforts of the youthful Athenry side. By this victory, some ten of the St Paul’s players won their second All-Ireland medal in six months. Liz Neary set a record that is never likely to be surpassed by anyone except herself. She won her sixth All-Ireland club medal, five of them with St Paul’s and one with the Dublin club, Celtic. Many felt that her clubmate Ann Carroll had also had six medals, but Ann missed one of St Paul’s victories in the early years.

Final stages
St Paul’s (Kk3-4 – 1-3Ahane
Athenry (Gal)7-2 – 3-3Creggan
St Paul’s (Kk6-3 – 1-3Athenry (Gal)
St Paul’s (Kk
St Paul’s:
GK1Teresa O'Neill
FB2Liz Neary
RWB3Ann Downey
CB4Bridie Martin
LWB5Mary Kavanagh
MF6Helena O'Neill
MF7Hanora Fogarty
MF8Mary Fennelly (captain)
RWF9Angela Downey
CF10Carmel Doyle
LWF11Ursula Grace
FF12Breda Coonan
Athenry:
GK1Breda Coady
FB2Noreen Treacy
RWB3Gretta O'Brien
CB4Anne Duane
LWB5Anne Delaney
MF6Olive Coady
MF7Midge Poniard
MF8Ann O'Donoghue
RWF9Marion Freaney
CF10Mary Daly
LWF11Anne Morris
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 13, 1977, competition of 1976
  4. Report of final in Irish Independent, March 13, 1977, competition of 1976
  5. Report of final in Irish Times, March 13, 1977, competition of 1976
  6. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, September 2, 1976
  7. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, September 2, 1976
  8. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, September 2, 1976
  9. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, September 9, 1976
  10. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, September 9, 1976
  11. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, September 9, 1976
Preceded by
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1975		 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship
1964 – present		 Succeeded by
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1977
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