2003 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2003
Championship details
Dates 3 June — 21 September 2003
Teams 6
All-Ireland champions
Winners Tipperary (4th win)
Captain Una O'Dwyer
Manager Raymie Ryan
All-Ireland runners-up
Runners-up Cork
Captain Stephanie Dunlea
Manager John Considine
Championship statistics
Matches played 18
2002
2004

The 2003 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championshipknown as the Foras na Gaeilge All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasonswas the high point of the 2003 season. The championship was won by Tipperary who defeated Cork by a three-point margin in the final. The attendance was a then record of 16,183. Player of the Match was Eimear McDonnell, a niece of Cork football legend Billy Morgan. The championship and the final 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.[1][2]

Semi-finals

In the semi-final Cork were 2-2 up after only seven minutes, thanks to fine goals from Fiona O'Driscoll and Orla O'Sullivan. “All Galway could do was look on” one reporter wrote as they trailed 0-0 to Cork's 3-6 at the break and lost by 25 points. Tipperary beat Limerick 18 points in the other semi-final. With six minutes of the half remaining, Tipperary were awarded a penalty which centre back Ciara Gaynor struck to the back of the net and it gave them a 2-8 to 0-7 half-time lead.

Final

Cork led 0-3 to 1-3 at half-time. Deirdre Hughes got an early second-half goal and Eimear McDonnell scored four points to put them into a six-point lead with 10 minutes remaining before a late Gemma O'Connor goal put a better appearance on the scoreboard. Goalkeeper Jovita Delaney made a vital block and clearance on a late free.

Final stages

August 23
Semi-Final
Cork 4-16 – 0-3 Galway

August 23
Semi-Final
Tipperary 4-16 – 0-10 [3] Limerick

September 21
Final
Tipperary 2-11 – 1-11 [4] Cork
Tipperary
Cork
TIPPERARY:
GK 1 Jovita Delaney (Cashel)
RCB 2 Suzanne Kelly (Toomevara)
FB 3 Una O'Dwyer (Cashel) (Capt)
LCB 4 Claire Madden (Nenagh Éire Óg)
RWB 5 Sinéad Nealon (Burgess)
CB 6 Ciara Gaynor (Burgess)
LWB 7 Therese Brophy (Burgess)
MF 8 Angie McDermott (Kildangan)
MF 9 Philly Fogarty (Cashel)
RWF 10 Joanne Ryan (Drom-Inch) (0-1)
CF 11 Emily Hayden (Cashel) (0-2)
LWF 12 Claire Grogan (Cashel) (0-1)
RCF 13 Noelle Kennedy (Toomevara) (0-2)  56'
FF 14 Deirdre Hughes (Toomevara) (1-1)
LCF 15 Eimear McDonnell (Burgess) (1-4)
Substitutes:
RCF Trish O'Halloran (Nenagh Éire Óg) for Fogarty  55'
CORK:
GK 1 Ger Casey (Inniscarra)
RCB 2 Joanne O'Callaghan (Cloughduv)
FB 3 Eithne Duggan (Bishopstown)
LCB 4 Stephanie Dunlea (Cloughduv) (Capt)
RWB 5 Paula O'Connor (Newtownshandrum)  Half time'
CB 6 Mary O'Connor (Killeagh) (0-2)
LWB 7 Gemma O'Connor (St Finbarr's) (1-0)  36'  54'
MF 8 Rachel Moloney (Courcey Rovers)
MF 9 Vivienne Harris (Bishopstown)  47'
RWF 10 Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv) (0-1)
CF 11 Emer Dillon (Ballygarvan) (0-2)
LWF 12 Jennifer O'Leary (Barryroe) (0-2)
RCF 13 Orla O'Sullivan (St Finbarr's) (0-1)  54'
FF 14 Caoimhe Harrington (Newtownshandrum)  47'
LCF 15 Fiona O'Driscoll (Fr O’Neill’s) (0-3)
Substitutes:
RWB Cathriona Foley (Rockbán) for Paula O'Connor  Half time'
MF Briege Corkery (Cloughduv) for Harris  47'
LWB Sarah Hayes (Rockbán) for Gemma O'Connor  36'
FF Colette Desmond (Newcestown) for Harrington  47'
FF Gemma O'Connor (St Finbarr's) for O'Sullivan (returning to play)  54'

References

  1. 2003 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, and Irish Times.
  2. Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460. 978-1-908591-00-5
  3. Semi-final report in Irish Independent
  4. 2003 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, and Irish Times.

External links

Preceded by
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2002
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
1932 – present
Succeeded by
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2004
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