2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2008

Championship details
Dates	1 June — 14 September 2008
Teams	7
All-Ireland champions
Winners	Cork (22nd win)
Captain	Caitriona Foley
Manager	Denise Cronin
All-Ireland runners-up
Runners-up	Galway
Captain	Sinéad Cahalan
Manager	Liam Donoghue
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The 2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2008 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a five point margin in the final. ^[1][2] The championship was played between June 1 and September 14, 2008. The format was as follows: seven county teams entered. Each team played all of the others once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top four teams qualified for the semi-finals.

Group Stages

Substitute Lourda Kavanagh’s late goal helped Galway spring a surprise against Cork in the group stages by 1-9 to 0-8 at Páirc Ui Rinn. Cork went on to gain revenge when the same teams med again in the All-Ireland final, the second time a group result had been reversed in the final in the three years since the round-robin format had been introduced into the championship in 2006.

Results

Group stage

The cross table below summarises the group stages, which were played from June 1 to August 3, 2008. Away results are italicised.

Team	C	G	W	T	K	D	L	Pts
Cork	-	0	2	2	2	2	2	10
Galway	2	-	2	1	0	2	2	9
Wexford	0	0	-	2	2	2	2	8
Tipperary	0	1	0	-	2	2	2	7
Kilkenny	0	2	0	0	-	2	2	6
Dublin	0	0	0	0	0	-	2	2
Limerick	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0

Final stages

Cork v Tipperary

August 24 Semi-Final

Cork	3–14 – 0–10	Tipperary

Nowlan Park, Kilkenny

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Wexford v Galway

August 24 Semi-Final

Wexford	1–10 – 1–13	Galway

Nowlan Park, Kilkenny

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Cork v Galway

September 14 Final

Cork	2–10 – 1–8	Galway

Croke Park, Dublin

Cork

Galway

CORK: GK 1 Aoife Murray (Cloughduv) RCB 2 Lynda O'Connell (St Finbarr's) FB 3 Cathriona Foley (Rockbán) (captain) LCB 4 Joanne O'Callaghan (Cloughduv) RWB 5 Gemma O'Connor (St Finbarr's) CB 6 Mary O'Connor (Killeagh) LWB 7 Sara Hayes (Courcey Rovers) MF 8 Orla Cotter (St Catherine’s) 0-1 MF 9 Briege Corkery (Cloughduv) 0-1 RWF 10 Amanda O'Regan (Douglas)  57' CF 11 Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv)  47' LWF 12 Eimear O'Sullivan (Ballinhassig) 0-1 RCF 13 Síle Burns (Rockbán) (captain) 2-0 FF 14 Rachel Moloney (Courcey Rovers) 0-7 LCF 15 Elaine O'Riordan (Milford)  Half time' Substitutes: LCF Emer O'Farrell (Sarsfields) for O'Riordan  (half-time)' CF Rena Buckley (Inniscarra) for O'Donoghue  47' RWF Linda Dorgan (Inniscarra) for O'Regan  57'

GALWAY: GK 1 Susan Earner (Meelick Eyrecourt) RCB 2 Sandra Tannian (St Thomas) FB 3 Aibhe Kelly (Davitts) LCB 4 Therese Manton (Mullagh) RWB 5 Ann Marie Hayes (Killimor) CB 6 Sinéad Cahalan (Mullagh) (captain) LWB 7 Niamh Kilkenny (Pearses) MF 8 Aine Hillary (Pearses) 1-0 MF 9 Sarah Noone (Ahascragh-Caltra)  48' RWF 10 Molly Dunne (Meelick Eyrecourt)  Half time' CF 11 Therese Maher (Athenry) LWF 12 Veronica Curtin (Kinvara) RCF 13 Orla Kilkenny (Pearses) FF 14 Jessica Gill (Athenry) LCF 15 Brenda Kerins (Ardrahan)  58' Substitutes: RWF Lourda Kavanagh (Davitts) for Dunne  (half-time)' MF Catriona Cormican (Cappataggle for Noone  48' LCF Deirdre Burke (Meelick Eyrecourt) for Kerins  58'

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. 2008 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times and Reaction in Irish Examiner

External links

• Reports of 2008 All Ireland final in Independent, Irish Times Examiner, Reaction in Examiner
• Video highlights of 2008 championship Part One, Part Two and Part three
• Video of 2008 All Ireland finals preview
• Video of 2008 All Ireland semi-final Wexford v Galway
• Results on camogie.ie (MS Excel document)
• Official Camogie Website
• Review of championship in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine