Annette Clarke
Personal information
Irish name Áine Ní Chléirigh
Sport Ladies' football
Position Midfielder
Born 1983 (age 39–40)
Lavally
Nickname Clarkie
Occupation Garda[1]
Club(s)
Years Club
 Kilkerrin-Clonberne
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1997–2016[2]
 Galway
Inter-county titles
All-Irelands 1
All Stars 2

Annette Clarke (born 1983; married name Annette Collins[3]) is an Irish sportswoman. She played ladies' Gaelic football with her local club, Kilkerrin-Clonberne, and with the Galway county team.[4][5]

Playing career

Clarke won the All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championship with Galway in 2002, and captained Galway to the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship in 2004. [6]

She suffered a near-career-ending injury in 2010 and was dropped from the Galway squad in 2012. Clarke, however, returned to the Galway squad, winning a second All Star in 2013[7] and captaining her club to a Connacht Ladies Senior Club Football Championship in 2014. She retired in 2016.[8][3]

She appeared on an episode of Laochra Gael on 17 April 2016.[9]

Personal life

Annette Clarke is a member of Garda Síochána, the Irish police.[10][11] She is married to Kieran Collins.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Behind The Player: Annette Clarke Of Galway On Life As A Guard And An Inter-County Star - Her.ie".
  2. ↑ "Galway Ladies Football". m.facebook.com.
  3. 1 2 3 Glennon, Stephen (29 January 2016). "Blow for Galway as Clarke hangs up her county boots".
  4. ↑ "Player Profile – Annette Clarke". www.wgpa.ie.
  5. ↑ "Connacht Ladies Gaelic". www.connachtladiesgaelic.com.
  6. ↑ "Dublin v Galway Senior Photos". www.sportsfile.com. 3 October 2004. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Annette Clarke (Galway) - Ladies Gaelic Football".
  8. ↑ "Galways star Annette Clarke's difficult call on county". 5 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Annette Clarke to feature on TG4's Laochra Gael - Galway Bay FM". 11 April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 October 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "Ballinfoyle man threatened to slit garda's throat, court hears".
  11. ↑ "Man fined for 'sinister' filming of garda".
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