2007 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship

2007 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship

Championship Details
Dates
Competitors
Sponsor
All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship winners
Winners	Kilkenny (2nd title)
Captain
Manager
All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship Runners-up
Runners-up	Cork
Captain	Deirdre Twomey
Manager
Matches played

The 2007 All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship, the most important elite level inter-county competition for age graded development squad county teams in the women only team field sport of camogie was won by Kilkenny, who defeated Cork by 14 points in the final, played at Clonmel.^[1][2]

Arrangements

Antrim, winners of the minor B championship, defeated Clare in the quarter-finals. Cork’s defensive heroes against Tipperary in the semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds were Maria Walsh, Leah Weste and Áine Moynihan. Cork were foiled by the excellent goalkeeping of Kristine Kenneally but progressed by 1–10 to 1–5

B Division

The Minor B final was won by Antrim who defeated Down by nine points in the final at Páirc Esler (Newry), reversing the previous year’s result.^[3] In the semi-finals Down defeated Roscommon (10–25 to 0–3) and Antrim defeated Waterford (5–27 to 0–2).

The Final

Kilkenny’s Marie Dargan and Michelle Quilty scored 3–7 between them in the final.^[4]

Final stages

Kilkenny v Cork

Final

Kilkenny	3-12 – 0-7	Cork

Clonmel

Kilkenny

Cork

Kilkenny: GK 1 Emma Staunton (Paulstown) RCB 2 Mariga Nolan (St Lachtain’s) FB 3 Anne-Marie Walsh (St Martin’s) LCB 4 Paula Butler (Mullinavat) RWB 5 Leanne Fennelly (Mullinavat) CB 6 Collette Dormer (Paulstown) LWB 7 Kate McDonald (Thomastown) MF 8 Maria Murphy (Clara) MF 9 Lucinda Gahan (Mullinavat) RWF 10 Sinéad Long (Piltown) CF 11 Katie Power (Piltown) LWF 12 Catherine Walsh (Thomastown) RCF 13 Noreen O'Keeffe (St Martin’s) FF 14 Marie Dargan (St Martin’s) LCF 15 Michelle Quilty (Mullinavat) Substitutes: LCB Eilish Cantwell (St Martin’s) for Butler  30' FB Aisling Dunphy (St Brigid’s Ballycallan) for Walsh  40' RWF Noelle Corrigan (St Lachtain’s) for Long  49' LCF Georgina Culleton (Piltown) for Quilty  54' RCB Roisin Byrne (Clara) for Nolan  57'

Cork: GK 1 Denise Leahy RCB 2 Leah Weste FB 3 Áine Moynihan LCB 4 Christine O'Neill RWB 5 Carolyn Motherway CB 6 Maria Walsh LWB 7 Róisín de Faoite MF 8 Bríd Twomey MF 9 Aisling Thompson 0–2 RWF 10 Kathleen O'Brien CF 11 Niamh Dilworth 0–2 LWF 12 Deirdre Twomey 0–2 RCF 13 Erin Corkery FF 14 Denise Cronin LCF 15 Sinéad O'Callaghan Substitutes: MF Juanita Brennan FF Sharon Whelton MF Lydia Cunningham MF Siobhán Gleeson  54'

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 Minor Camogie Championship on Camogie.ie
3. 2007 minor b Antrim 3-18 Down 5-3 in Newry report on Anfearrua.com
4. 2007 Kilkenny 3-12 Cork 0-7 at Pairc Ui Rinn, report on Camogie.ie

External links

• Camogie Association