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):
GK1Breda Coady
FB2Noreen Treacy
RWB3Gretta O'Brien
CB4Ann Duane
LWB5Anne Delaney
MF6Olive Coady
MF7Midge Poniard
MF8Madge Hobbins
RWF9Marion Freaney
CF10Mary Daly
LWF11Anne Morris
FF12Teresa Duane
Portglenone (Ant):
GK1Sue Dillon
FB2Ann Kelly
RWB3Enda Webb
CB4Jackie McAtamney
LWB5Vera McAleese
MF6Mairéad McAtamney
MF7Siobhán McAtamney
MF8Claire McIlvenna
RWF9Ann Marie O'Neill
CF10Sheena McAtamney
LWF11Briege Kelly
FF12Patricia 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
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