2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Foras na Gaeilge (formerly Bórd na Gaeilge) All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2000 season. The championship was won by Tipperary who achieved a second successive title beating Cork by a five-point margin in the final. The attendance was 12,880, second highest in the history of the sport of camogie at that time.[1]

All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2000
Championship details
Dates3 June — 3 September 2000
Teams8
All-Ireland champions
WinnersTipperary (2nd win)
CaptainJovita Delaney
ManagerMichael Cleary
All-Ireland runners-up
Runners-upCork
CaptainVivienne Harris
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2001 →

Birth of a rivalry

This and subsequent finals between the two counties was a high point in a period of rapid growth in the popularity of the sport of camogie which quadrupled the average attendance at its finals in a ten-year period. “It was unquestionably a day on which the profile of the game soared and many players produced moments of individual brilliance.,” Pat Roche wrote in the Irish Times.[2]

Early rounds

Cork beat Kilkenny by 2-10 to 1-12 in the quarter-finals, Tipperary beat Clare 4-15 to 0-5, Galway beat Limerick 4-13 to 1-8 and Wexford beat Dublin 4-12 to 0-6. Cork easily defeated Wexford keeping them scoreless until just before the half-time whistle, in the semi-final. A goal by Noelle Kennedy proved to be the turning point of the second semi-final in which Tipperary beat Galway 2-11 to 1-8.

Final

Unusually Tipperary were favourites for the final.[3] By the 17th minute they led by 2-4 to 0-2. Deirdre Hughes was quickly on to a sideline cut by Emily Hayden before netting off a post for the opening goal after four minutes. Within two minutes she palmed the ball to the Cork net to finish off an astute centre from the 14-year-old Claire Grogan. Cork's goal in reply came too late from Una O'Donoghue.

Final stages
Cork3-13 – 1-5Wexford
Tipperary2-11 – 1-8Kilkenny
Tipperary2-11 – 1-9 [4]Cork
Tipperary
Cork
TIPPERARY:
GK1Jovita Delaney (Cashel) (Capt)
RCB2Suzanne Kelly (Toomevara)
FB3Una O'Dwyer (Cashel)
LCB4Claire Madden (Nenagh Éire Óg)
RWB5Sinéad Nealon (Burgess)
CB6Ciara Gaynor (Burgess) (0-1)
LWB7Therese Brophy (Burgess)
MF8Emily Hayden (Cashel)
MF9Angela McDermott (Kildangan)
RWF10Philly Fogarty (Cashel) (0-1)
CF11Noelle Kennedy (Toomevara)
LWF12Caitríona Hennessy (Cashel) (0-4)
RCF13Eimear McDonnell (Burgess) (0-2)
FF14Deirdre Hughes (Toomevara) (2-2)
LCF15Claire Grogan (Cashel) (0-2)
CORK:
GK1Cora Keohane (Barryroe)
RCB2Denise Cronin (Glen Rovers) (0-1)
FB3Eithne Duggan (Bishopstown)
LCB4Mags Finn (Fr O'Neill’s)
RWB5Sarah Hayes Rockbán)
CB6Mary O'Connor (Killeagh)
LWB7Vivienne Harris (Bishopstown) (Capt)
MF8Ursula Troy (Newtownshandrum)
MF9Linda Mellerick (Glen Rovers)
RWF10Sinéad O'Callaghan (Ballinhassig) (0-2)
CF11Fiona O'Driscoll (Fr O'Neill’s) (0-4)
LWF12Caoimhe Harrington (Newtownshandrum) downward-facing red arrow 49'
RCF13Elaine Burke (Valley Rovers) (0-1) downward-facing red arrow 30'
FF14Ciara Healy (Bishopstown)
LCF15Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv) (1-1)
Substitutes:
MFPaula O'Connor (Newtownshandrum) for Burke upward-facing green arrow 30'
FFMary Burke for Harrington upward-facing green arrow 49'

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. 2000 All Ireland final report in Irish Times
  3. Preview in Irish Independent
  4. 2000 All Ireland final report in Irish Times
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