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| Founded: | 1934 | ||||||||
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| County: | Dublin | ||||||||
| Colours: | Navy and red | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Coolock | ||||||||
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Celtic is a camogie club, winner of the Dublin Championship on 12 occasions and the inaugural winner of the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship in 1964.. Dublin did not send a representative in 1965, so they did not defend their title.
The Celtic camogie club was formed in the Coolock area of Dublin by the Keegan sisters in 1929. [1] Una O’Connor, Eileen Duffy, Ally Hussey, Betty Hughes, Eithne Leech, Kit Kehoe, Kitty Murphy, Deirdre Lane, Una Crowley and Ann Colgan are a sprinkling of the stars that won many Dublin championship medals with Celtic.
Celtic won ten Dublin championships in their heyday and were the first All Ireland club champions when the competition was introduced in 1964 thanks to a great display by Alice Hussey at centre back and three goals from Úna O'Connor.
On their 1964 All Ireland side Angela Gill was a daughter of Mick Gill who won All-Ireland hurling medals with Galway and Dublin, Mary Casey was a sister of Bill Casey, who had won an All-Ireland football medal with Dublin in 1963 and Claire Heffernan was a sister of Dublin footballer and later manager, Kevin Heffernan.
Noted alumni include six presidents of the Camogie Association Eilish Redmond, Mary Lynch, Nell McCarthy, Mary Moran, Mary Fennelly and Liz Howard. Camogie Team of the Century member Kathleen Duffy recalled in 2004 cycling to Coolock to training, "sometimes pulling the lawnmower behind us all the way because we used to cut it ourselves. Those were different days, we cycled everywhere and actually got great coverage in the papers. People would recognise you around town and shout over 'well done yesterday, Eileen!'" [2] Notable players included Eileen Duffy, Kit Kehoe, Kitty Murphy, Mary Moran (later to become a President of the Camogie Association), Mary Fennelly and Brid Fennelly.
Celtic wore a navy gym tunic with a red bar around the skirt and a white blouse.
The Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) or Dublin GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in the Dublin Region and the Dublin county teams. The teams and their fans are known as "The Dubs" or "Boys in Blue". The fans have a special affiliation with the Hill 16 end of Croke Park.
The All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship is a competition for inter-county teams in the women's field sport of game of camogie played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Camogie Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Camogie Final being played on the second Sunday in September in Croke Park, Dublin. The prize for the winning team is the O'Duffy Cup.
Úna O'Connor was an Irish sportsperson who played senior camogie with Dublin from 1953 until 1975. She is regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time, a member of the team of the century. the first camogie player to win a Caltex award in 1966, and the Gaelic Weekly all-star award winner in 1967.
Eileen Duffy-O'Mahoney was an Irish sportsperson who played senior camogie with Dublin from 1949 until 1957.
Mary Moran, Irish: Máire Ní Mhóráin, was the 18th president of the Camogie Association, elected at the 1973 Congress in the Blarney Hotel in a run-off against Mary Lynch of Monaghan.
Mary Fennelly was the 19th president of the Camogie Association.
Áine Codd is a camogie player, winner of an All-Star award in 2004 and an All Ireland medal in 2007.
Brigid Kehoe Doyle is a former camogie player, winner of the B+I Star of the Year award and an All Ireland medal in 1968, 1969 and 1975 and a National League in 1968.
The 2007 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2007 season in the sport of camogie. The championship was won by Wexford who defeated Cork by a two-point margin in the final thanks to two first-half goals by ‘player of the match’ Una Leacy. The final attracted a record attendance of 33,154.
The 1934 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1934 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Cork, who defeated Louth by an eight-point margin in the final.
The 1994 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1994 season. The championship was won by Killkenny who defeated Wexford by a nine-point margin in the final. The match drew an attendance of 5,000.
The 1957 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1957 season in camogie. The championship was won by Dublin who defeated Antrim by a two-point margin in the final thus gaining revenge for Antrim's semi-final victory of the previous year that interrupted would have been a sequence of 19 All-Ireland championships in a row by Dublin.
The 1955 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1955 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Dublin who defeated Cork by an eight-point margin in the final. The match was played at Croke Park and attracted an attendance of 4,192.
The 1940 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1940 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Cork, who defeated Galway by a five-point margin in the final.
The 1975 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1975 season in the sport of camogie. The championship was won by Wexford who defeated Cork by a surprising ten point margin in the final, Cork having defeated reigning champions Kilkenny in the semi-final.
The 1968 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1968 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Wexford who defeated Cork by a three-point margin in the final.
The 1967 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1967 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Antrim who defeated Dublin by a four-point margin in the final, which went to a replay. It ended a remarkable record of 18 All Ireland titles in 19 years by Dublin, an eight-in-row 1948-‘55 and a ten-in-a-row 1957-’66.
The 1966 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1966 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Dublin who defeated Antrim by a two-point margin in the final. The semi-final between Dublin and Tipperary ranks alongside the disputed semi-final of 1947 between Dublin and Galway as the most controversial in camogie history.
Austin Stacks is a camogie club that won the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship in 1971 and 1972. The club won a further Leinster championship in 1973 and the Dublin Senior Championship on 11 occasions.
The 1964 inaugural All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Celtic, who defeated Deirdre in the final, played at Croke Park. The attendance at the final included Séamus Ó Braonáin, who had refereed the very first camogie matches in 1904 and his wife, Brigid Dillon who played in the practice match in the Phoenix Park and the first camogie match in Navan. An anonymous donor provided an unusual silver cup, known as the ‘Jubilee Cup’, which Celtic Camogie Club were allowed to keep.
